Ángel Canaveris (c. 1847–1897) was an Argentine

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and

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, who had a preponderant role in the beginnings of Uruguayan Medicine. He served in

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as general director of the

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and Hospital Maciel.

Biography

Ángel Canaveris was born in

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, probably in the city of

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, on one of the trips made in

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, by his parents

Juan Manuel Canaveris Juan Manuel Canaveris (1804-1868) was an Argentine jurist and politician, who served in Buenos Aires and Montevideo as lawyer, attorney, teacher and military man. He participated of the escort of Honor guard, honor in the funerals of Manuel Dorreg ...

and Carmen Gutiérrez, belonging to a distinguished family. After completing his secondary education in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Canaveris entered as a student in the Facultad de Medicina of the

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, where he graduated in 1875 with a thesis entitled "Consideraciones sobre la lactancia" (Considerations about breastfeeding). For the year 1875, the recent graduate Dr. Canaveris was settled in

, city where his mother was born. That same year, he was appointed by the Council of Public Hygiene, to serve in the Hospitals of Vilardebó and Maciel. He was one of the first psychiatrists in the Mental Hospital of Uruguay. In 1878, Canaveris was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Pedro Visca, director of the Asylum between 1877 and 1878. He also dedicated himself to teaching, serving as a doctor in the Internato Normal de Señoritas, since its foundation. In 1879 the Dr. Ángel Canaveris, had promoted a resolution where the foreman should monitor that nurses do not give mistreatment of psychiatric patients. Canaveris reported that for an efficient mental treatment the patients should be contained with good treatment by their

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. In 1888, he resigned as Head of the Mental Hospital of Montevideo, being replaced by Dr. Alejo Martínez. Ángel Canaveris attended the first Pan-American Congress of Medicine, held in

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between September 5 and 8, 1893.

Family

Ángel Canaveris was married twice, first with Concepción Da Costa Guimaraes, and second to Paz Da Costa Guimaraes, belonging to families of Portuguese roots. His mother was the daughter of

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, a distinguished doctor of medicine, born in

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, and Lorenza Moxica y López de Castilla, belonging to a Uruguayan Creole family. His direct ancestor

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, born in Saluzzo, but of Irish ancestry, had been one of the first benefactors of Hospital Maciel. He was also a relative of Sinforoso Amoedo, distinguished doctor of medicine, deceased during the yellow fever epidemic.

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