Date of birth: 1593, Village de Amarante, Bishopric of Porto. Surgeon Link to BRASILHIS Database: https://brasilhis.usal.es/es/personaje/baltasar-teixeira Surgeon of Portuguese origin. Lived and worked in the city of Lisbon and in the village of Amarante. He was a Mayor Surgeon of the Navy, had fought and practiced his profession in Brazil on several occasions. He belonged to …
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Brazilwood
Brazilwood, classified by botanists in the genus caesalpinia, was found in abundance in the easternmost part of the American continent (Varnhagen, 1877:1) by the Portuguese as soon as they arrived in 1500. This type of wood was not totally unknown to the Europeans since there was in the east the Caesalpinia sappam lam which had …
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