Jacob de Castro Sarmento, a “new Christian” (a converted Jew) went to England to be able to practice his religion freely. He studied at Coimbra University and became a doctor of medicine at Marischal College in Aberdeen. Elected a member of the Royal Society in 1725, he invented and sold a medicine called “Agoa de Portugal” to combat malaria.
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