Reynaldo dos Santos

Reynaldo dos Santos (3 December 1880 – 6 May 1970) was a Portuguese physician, writer, and art historian. As a physician, he was a pioneer in the fields of vascular surgery and urology; as an art historian, he published numerous works on 15th-century Portuguese art, including on the Manueline style and on the paintings of Nuno Gonçalves.

Biography Reynaldo dos Santos was born in 1880 to Clemente José dos Santos (himself a physician ) and Maria Amélia Pinheiro Santos, in the family home in Rua das Varinas, Vila Franca de Xira, a town in the outskirts of Lisbon. He concluded his primary and secondary studies in this town, before enrolling at the Medico-Surgical School in Lisbon, from which he graduated in 1903. Between 1902 and 1905, he was abroad in Paris and the main surgical centres of the United States, in Boston, Chicago, Rochester, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.

He earned his doctorate in Medicine in 1906, with his thesis titled "Aspectos Cirúrgicos das Pancreatites Crónicas" ("Surgical Aspects of Chronic Pancreatitis"), after which he started teaching. He married Susana Cid on 18 August of that year. From 1910 to 1916, he taught Clinical Surgery, Surgical Propedeutics, and Operatory Medicine. In 1910, he oversaw a free course of Urology in Desterro Hospital, where he presented urorhythmography, using a device of his own making to "graphically register the value and rhythm of renal excretion as well as the function of the ureters".

Reynaldo dos Santos was the President of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences from 1961 to 1963.

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