Bernardino António Gomes Jr.

Bernardino António Gomes was a Portuguese physician and scientist. He is perhaps most widely remembered for his pioneering work in Portugal in the field of anaesthesiology, as the first physician in the country to use chloroform in a surgical procedure ; he is also credited with the popularization of the use of creosote and of the first ether inhalers.

22 September 1806

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Born in the same month (September 1806): Louis Juchault de Lamoricière