Sinforoso Amoedo (July 18, 1823 – April 23, 1871) was an Argentine
medical doctor
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
. He served during
the yellow fever epidemic of 1871.
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
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where he received his
M.D.
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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. Since the beginning of his career he had practiced medicine in the area of Concepción, current neighborhood of
Constitución. 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.
Sinforoso Amoedo had a natural son named
Joaquín Ramón Amoedo, who served for several periods as Intendente municipal of
Quilmes. He died of yellow fever on April 23, 1871, being buried in the
Cementerio de la Recoleta
La Recoleta Cemetery ( es, Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, ...
. His family received a posthumous award for his heroic work in the fight against the epidemic.
Sinforoso Amoedo was a contemporary of distinguished medical professionals, including
Carlos Furst,
Guillermo Rawson
Guillermo Rawson (24 June 1821 – 20 January 1890) was a medical doctor and politician in nineteenth-century Argentina. In 1862, when he was the Interior Minister of Argentina, he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones, who were on ...
and
Juan Antonio Argerich
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. His comrades
Aurelio French,
Ventura Bosch,
Adolfo Argerich and other distinguished professionals also died during the yellow fever epidemic.
References
External links
Bautismos 1820-1833Bautismos 1861-1863Argentina, Capital Federal, Census, 1855Argentina, National Census, 1869Defunciones 1871Testamento de Sinforoso Amoedo
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1823 births
1871 deaths
People from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Galician descent
Argentine people of Italian descent
Argentine people of Irish descent
Argentine infectious disease physicians
Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery
Canaveri family