Sinforoso Amoedo

Sinforoso Amoedo (July 18, 1823 – April 23, 1871) was an Argentine medical doctor.[1] He served during the yellow fever epidemic of 1871.[2]

Doctor

Sinforoso Amoedo Canaveri
Bust of Dr. S. Amoedo in La Recoleta Cemetery
Personal details
Born
Sinforoso del Carmen Amoedo y Canaveri

1823
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died1871
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting placeLa Recoleta Cemetery
Nationality Argentine
Political partyNational Autonomist Party
OccupationDoctor
Professionmedicine
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Early life and education

Sinforoso del Carmen Amoedo Canaveri was born July 18, 1823 in Buenos Aires, the son of Hilario Amoedo Garazatúa and Juana Josefa Canaveris Esparza, belonging to a Patrician family of Buenos Aires. His high school studies were at the Colegio Republicano. He studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires where he received his M.D..[3]

Career

In addition to practicing as a doctor, he exercised some minor political positions, included municipal elector of the Concepción in 1865 by decree issued by the interim president Marcos Paz.[4] Since the beginning of his career he had practiced medicine in the area of Concepción, current neighborhood of Constitución.[5] He had an active participation during the cholera epidemic that hit Argentina in 1867, also taking part in the fight against the yellow fever epidemic of 1871.[6]

Sinforoso Amoedo had a natural son named Joaquín Ramón Amoedo, who served for several periods as Intendente municipal of Quilmes.[7] He died of yellow fever on April 23, 1871, being buried in the Cementerio de la Recoleta. His family received a posthumous award for his heroic work in the fight against the epidemic.[8]

Sinforoso Amoedo was a contemporary of distinguished medical professionals, including Carlos Furst, Guillermo Rawson and Juan Antonio Argerich.[9] His comrades Aurelio French, Ventura Bosch, Adolfo Argerich and other distinguished professionals also died during the yellow fever epidemic.[10]

References
  1. La Epidemia de Fiebre Amarilla de 1871 (PDF), Rafael Berruti
  2. Fiebre amarilla en Buenos Aires, El Intransigente - Noticias de Argentina
  3. Historia de la universidad de Buenos Aires y de su influencia en la cultura Argentina dirifida, Volúmenes 5-6, Imprenta y casa editora "coni", 1921, 1921
  4. Registro Nacional, República Argentina, 1865
  5. Memoria de la Municipalidad, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1858
  6. La peste histórica de 1871: fiebre amarilla en Corrientes y en Buenos Aires, 1870-1871, Leandro Ruíz Moreno, 1949
  7. Remembranzas quilmeñas, Número 4, Manuel Ales, 1970
  8. Dario De Sesiones De La Camara De Senadores, Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province) 1871., 1871
  9. Memoria, By Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province). Ministerio de Gobierno, 1871
  10. Historia de la medicina en el Río de la Plata desde su descubrimiento hasta nuestros días, 1512 à 1925, Volumen 3, Eliseo Cantón, 1928
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