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PROF. RICARDO JORGE, an eminent Portuguese hygienist and medical historian, was born on May 22, 1858, at Oporto, where he received-his medical education and carried out some important work on plague in conjunction with Dr.Camara Pestana. He afterwards went to Lisbon, where he was appointed director-general of public health and professor of hygiene.
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ROLLESTON, J. Prof. Ricardo Jorge. Nature 144, 700 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144700a0
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