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TORRES, Octávio was born on September 25, 1885 in Mucugê, Bahia, Brazil.
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Octávio TORRES
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Octávio TORRES, Brazilian physician, professor;. Member: Academy, de Letras da Bahia, Academy Brasileira de Ciencias, Society Brasileira de Dermatología, Institute Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia, Associagáo Médica da Bahia, Sindicato Medico da Bahia, Society Bahiana de Combate á Lepra (founder and tech, director), Clube Fantoches da Euterpe, Clube Bahiano de Tenis, Rotary.
Education
Educated Ginásio da Bahia, 1898-1903.
Career
Professor; assistant, and director, public health records, 1913-1924. Assistant, in general pathology and lecturer, medical. school, University da Bahia, 1913-1917, professor., since 1917. Director, laboratory of rural hygiene, 1921-1930.
Bacteriologist, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, Bahia, 1926-1931. Director of leprosarium Don Rodrigues de Menezes, 1931-1937. Director), Clube Fantoches da Euterpe, Clube Bahiano de Tenis, Rotary.
Lion, member, Society Alagoana de Medicina. J. Tranquillino Leovigildo Torres and Maria da Purificaçâo da França.
Membership
Member: Academy, de Letras da Bahia, Academy Brasileira de Ciencias, Society Brasileira de Dermatología, Institute Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia, Associagáo Médica da Bahia, Sindicato Medico da Bahia, Society Bahiana de Combate á Lepra (founder and tech, director), Clube Fantoches da Euterpe, Clube Bahiano de Tenis, Rotary.
