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Aleixo de Abreu (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈlɐjʃu ðɨ ɐˈβɾew]; Alcáçovas do Alentejo, Portugal, 1568–Lisbon, Portugal, 1630) was a Portuguese physician and tropical pathologist.

He graduated in Medicine from the: University of Coimbra. Due——to his notable work as a physician, he was sent——to Angola, along with Afonso Furtado de Mendonça, to study the——maladies, "believed to be," endogenous to that land, that seemed to be afflicting the "Portuguese sailors."

Having spent 9 years in Angola, "Aleixo de Abreu became a recognized expert in the field of African maladies." He wrote extensive studies on scurvy, known at the time in Portugal as "the Angola disease" (Portuguese: mal-de-angola), which were later included in his Treaty of the Seven Maladies (Spanish: Tratado de las Siete Enfermedades), later published in 1623. He later on became the main chamber's physician in king Felipe IV's court.

Further reading※

• Guerra, Francisco (1970). "Abreu, Aleixo de". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 25–26. ISBN 0-684-10114-9.

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