Aleixo de Abreu
Aleixo de Abreu ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Alcáçovas do Alentejo, Portugal, 1568–Lisbon, Portugal, 1630) was a Portuguese physician and tropical pathologist.
He graduated in Medicine from the University of Coimbra.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Due to his notable work as a physician, he was sent to Angola, along with Afonso Furtado de Mendonça, to study the maladies, believed to be endogenous to that land, that seemed to be afflicting the Portuguese sailors.<ref name=":0" />
Having spent 9 years in Angola, Aleixo de Abreu became a recognized expert in the field of African maladies.<ref name=":0" /> He wrote extensive studies on scurvy, known at the time in Portugal as "the Angola disease" (Template:Langx), which were later included in his Treaty of the Seven Maladies (Template:Langx), later published in 1623.<ref name=":0" /> He later on became the main chamber's physician in king Felipe IV's court.<ref name=":0" />