Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga (1826 – 14 July 1883) was a Brazilian-born Portuguese physician. He taught Materia Medica at the Lisbon Medical Surgical School and left several works dealing chiefly with cardiology. He was a founder and main editor of the Gazeta Médica de Lisboa.[1]
Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga | |
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| Born | 1826 |
| Died | 14 July 1883 (aged 56–57) |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation(s) | Physician and professor |
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He became notable for his clinical work during the cholera morbus and yellow fever epidemics in Lisbon in 1856 and 1857, respectively. Alvarenga also introduced the sphygmograph, the first non-intrusive device used to estimate blood pressure, to Portugal.[2]
Alvarenga discovered the double crural murmur, a sign of aortic insufficiency (published in 1855, translated to French in 1856[3]), almost a decade before Duroziez.
Distinctions edit
National orders edit
Knight of the Order of the Tower and Sword[4]
Commander of the Order of Christ[4]
Officer of the Order of Saint James of the Sword[4]
Foreign orders edit
Commander of the Order of Leopold (Belgium)[4]
Commander of the Order of Charles III (Spain)[4]
Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain)[4]
Alvarenga Prize edit
The Alvarenga Prize (Swedish: Alvarengas pris), named after Alvarenga, is awarded by the Swedish Medical Society.[5]
References edit
- ^ Silva, Innocencio Francisco da (1862). Diccionario Bibliographico Portuguez [Portuguese Bibliographic Dictionary] (in Portuguese). Vol. VI. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional. pp. 405–406.
- ^ Dobell, H. (1871). Reports on the Progress of Practical & Scientific Medicine, in Different Parts of the World. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. p. 123.
- ^ Alvarenga, Pedro Francisco da Costa (1856). Mémoire sur l'insuffisance des valvules aortiques et considérations générales sur les maladies du cœur (in French). Paris: Chez J.-B. Baillière.
- ^ a b c d e f Silva, Innocencio Francisco da (1894). Diccionario Bibliographico Portuguez [Portuguese Bibliographic Dictionary] (in Portuguese). Vol. XVII. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional. pp. 201–203.
- ^ "Alvarengas pris". Swedish Medical Society (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 October 2022.