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In Portugal, the practice of children´s medicine is related to Dona Estefania Hospital, in Lisbon, the first pediatric hospital in the country, open in the last quarter of the 19 th century.The very first doctors to care for children came from adult´s medicine, but they had great interest and understanding of children´s characteristics.The first full Professor, Jaime Ernesto Salazar d`Eça e Sousa, received his graduation at Boston University.He came back to Lisbon in 1897 as a specialist in orthopedics and pediatrician of medicine and surgery and started undergraduate and postgraduate pediatrics education.The evolution of pediatrics in the world over nearly the last 150 years has been astonishing, and Portugal has followed this evolution.
Neto et al. (Tue,) studied this question.