In the history of medicine, António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches as Portuguese educationist, historian, physician and translator (1699-1783).
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches was born at Penamacor in 1699. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Portugal. He trained at University of Salamanca.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Portugal matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches died in 1783, aged 84. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine
