National Institute of Tropical Medicine, Lisbon
Garcia de Orta was a Portuguese Renaissance physician and naturalist, a pioneer of tropical medicine.
I come here every ten years to get a yellow fever vaccine which is mandatory for entry in many tropical countries, mainly in Africa.
15 comments:
Nice tribute to a man of medicine.
I had the yellow fever vaccine before I came to Malaysia, along with a number of others...
Interesting history to the building...
-- Walking into the light
Did not know this.
imposing statue!
Great to see, once in a while, a monument dedicated to a physician!
What a great statue! I agree with VP, it is great to see a monument dedicated to a physician! Superb capture as always, Jose!! Hope your week is going well!
Tropical medicine. I actually looked it up, since I never heard of that strand of medicine before. What a great building and statue.
Mersad
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Great statue, JM!
Those medicins did great discoveries in the past. We still have profits of that now.
An impressive set of statues!
I agree with Sharon, very nice indeed.
i got vaccinated when we went to india a couple of years ago.
Tropical medicine the words make shudder. When I lived in Paoya New Guinea I found small cuts and abrasions that you would not give a second thought turned into big sores. And malaria was a constant hazard.
Cool statue.
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