The Academia Nacional de Medicina (ANM) is the Brazilian

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of medicine. The academy was founded during the Brazilian imperial period on 30 June 1829, under the name of ''Sociedade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro''. On 8 May 1835, it received a charter from the imperial regency to become the Imperial Academy of Medicine. After the proclamation of the

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, its name was changed to its current name. Its first president was Joaquim Cândido Soares de Meirelles.

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* 1829 establishments in Brazil

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