Background
AUSTREGESILO, Antonio was born on April 21, 1876 in Pernambuco. Son of Dr. José Austregesilo Rodrigues Lima and Maria A. Feitosa Lima.
AUSTREGESILO, Antonio was born on April 21, 1876 in Pernambuco. Son of Dr. José Austregesilo Rodrigues Lima and Maria A. Feitosa Lima.
Educated Colé- gio das Artes, Pernambuco.
Assistant of the medical commission which combated the cholera epidemic in Paraiba, 18%. Assistant of the Propaedeutical Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine. Physician of the Misericordia Hospital, 1902.
Alienist of the Hospital for the Insane, 1905. Clinical professor in the Faculty of Medicine, 1909. Professor of neurology in the University of Rio de Janeiro, 1912.
Federal deputy from Pernambuco, 1922-1930. Formerly physician of the Commercial Employees’ Association of Rio de Janeiro. Professor in the Franco-Brazilian Institute of Higher Culture.
President of the International Neurological Conference of Paris. Representative of the Faculty of Medicine to the centenary of the University of Toronto. Director of the Brazilian Medical Archives and of the Brazilian Archives of Neuriatry and Psychiatry.
Brazilian Society of Neurology, Psychiatry and Legal Medicine (president). National Academy of Medicine (vicepresident). Brazilian Medical Syndicate (president).
Medical and Surgical Society (president, 1930-1931). Brazilian Academy of Letters. Corresponding member of the Neurological Society of Paris, Society of German Neurologists, Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Academy of Medicine of Buenos Aires, Comité FranceAmérique, Psychiatrical Society of Paris, Franco-Ibero-American Medical Union, Society of Medicine of Sâo Paulo.
Married Mary Milet Austregesilo. Children: Henrique, Teresinha, Erminia, Laura, Antonio, and Paulo.