title: Aleixo de Abreu [1568-1630], author of the earliest book on tropical medicine describing amoebiasis, malaria, typhoid fever, scurvy, yellow fever, dracontiasis, trichuriasis and tungiasis in 1623.
mesh_terms: D006666:History of Medicine; D049670:History, 17th Century; D011174:Portugal; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000266:history*