| Authorised form of name | Castro Sarmento; Jacob de (1692 - 1762) |
| Other forms of name | Jacob Henriques de |
| Other forms of surname | Castro-Sarmento |
| Dates | 1692 - 1762 |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| British |
| Place of birth | Portugal |
| Date of birth | 1692 |
| Place of death | King's Road, Holborn, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 14 September 1762 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
St Andrew's churchyard, Holborn, London, England, United Kingdom (20 September 1762) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Inoculation |
| Astronomy |
| Activity | Education:
University of vora, licentiate in the arts (1711); Coimbra University, bachelor of medicine (1717); Marischal College, Aberdeen, MD (1739)
Career:
Fled Portugal for London to escape persecution of Jews by the Portuguese inquisition (1720) but retained links with Portguee scholars and exchanged ideas with them from London; physician to the poor of Bevis Marks Synagogue (1724); developed quinine treatment for malaria known as 'gua de Ingalterra'; advocate of Newtonian ideas and the first to publish works in Portuguese in support of Newton; assisted in establishing the botanic garden at Coimbra University; staff physician to the Portuguese embassy (1738); founded a small infirmary (Beth Holim), for London's Portuguese Jewish community (1747); renounced Judaism (1758)
Memberships:
MRCP
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/02/1730 |
| Age at election | 37 |
| Relationships | Third son of Francisco de Castro de Almeida and Violante de Mesquita |
| PublishedWorks | https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr93016515/ |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Not indexed in Charter Book facsimile. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/100373787 |
| Code | NA7618 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MM/4/58 | Letter from David Lopez Pereyrs to the Royal Society | 6 May 1724 |
| IM/000754 | Castro-Sarmento, Jacob de | 1737 |
| L&P/3/386 | Letter, 'Cure of paralysis by electricity' by John Godfrey Teske to Jacob de Castro Sarmento | 1759 |
| RBO/15/58 | Astronomical observations between 1728 and 1729 witnessed at Peking communicated by Joannes Baptista Carbone to Jacob de Castro Sarmento | 1730 |
| EL/M3/29 | Letter, from Don Diego de Mendoca Corte Real to Jacob de Castro Sarmento | 15 October 1735 |
| L&P/2/103 | Paper, 'Of an iliac passion from palsy of the large intestine' by Jacob de Castro-Sarmento | 1750 |
| L&P/3/41 | Paper, 'Of a lunar eclipse' from Jacob de Castro-Sarmento | 1755 |
| CLP/8ii/30 | Letter, regarding astronomical observations made in Peking [Beijing] from J B [Joanne Baptista] Carbone to Jacob de Castro Sarmento | 1730 |
| RBO/16/3 | 'An account of the Gold Mines in Brazil belonging to the King of Portugal communicated in a letter to Cromwell Mortimer by Jacob de Castro Sarmento | 1731 |
| EL/C3/4 | Letter, from D. Corte Real to Jacob de Castro Sarmento, dated at West Lisbon | 15 October 1735 |