Maximiano Augusto de Oliveira Lemos Júnior (1860-1923) entered the Medical Surgical School of Porto on the 30th September 1876. He has entered the Polytechnic Academy on the 12th October 1875 in which he passed the examinations of Chemistry, Physics, Zoology, and Botanicals. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery passing the following disciplines: Anatomy, Physiology, Medical Matters, External Pathology, General Pathology, Surgeries, Internal Pathology, Pathologic Anatomy, Deliveries, Legal Medicine, Medical Practice, and Surgical Practice. He finished his graduation with the defense of the dissertation on the 16th July 1881. In 1889 he filled a substitute vacancy of the medical section, and six years later, was promoted to a lecturer in charge of Legal Medicine, the function he held five years later (31/5/1900). Maximiano Lemos was the Professor in charge of the discipline General Pathology that included the History of Medicine (1895-1900). Later, in 1916, when the discipline of History of Medicine was created Maximiano Lemos was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-Rector of the University of Porto (1921). He wrote "Arquivos de História da Medicina Portuguesa", "Gazeta dos Hospitais do Porto", and "Gazeta Médica do Porto". He was a Permanent Associate and President of the Society of Medicine and Surgery of Porto and Correspondent Associate of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon), Society of Medical Sciences of Lisbon, Portuguese Society of Natural Sciences, Society of Medicine and Surgery of Baía, German Society of History of Medicine and Natural Sciences of Leipzig.
In the extensive medical historical work he left us he showed a natural aptitude for National History of Medicine. Among his writing works it is worth to mention "Anuário dos Progressos da Medicina em Portugal" (1884), "História da Medicina em Portugal - Doutrinas e Instituições" (1899), "Amato Lusitano - a sua vida e a sua obra" (1907), "Zacuto Lusitano - a sua vida e a sua obra" (1909), "Ribeiro Sanches - a sua vida e a sua obra" (1911), "Camilo e os Médicos" (1915-1921), "História da Medicina Peninsular" (1916), "Gomes Coelho e os Médicos" (1922), "História do Ensino Médico no Porto" (1916), among many others. The work "Professor Maximiano Lemos - inventário bibliográfico" (A Medicina Moderna, 1923) of Alberto Saavedra has indispensable information for the full knowledge of the literary and medical historical work of the Professor Maximiano Lemos.
In the extensive medical historical work he left us he showed a natural aptitude for National History of Medicine. Among his writing works it is worth to mention "Anuário dos Progressos da Medicina em Portugal" (1884), "História da Medicina em Portugal - Doutrinas e Instituições" (1899), "Amato Lusitano - a sua vida e a sua obra" (1907), "Zacuto Lusitano - a sua vida e a sua obra" (1909), "Ribeiro Sanches - a sua vida e a sua obra" (1911), "Camilo e os Médicos" (1915-1921), "História da Medicina Peninsular" (1916), "Gomes Coelho e os Médicos" (1922), "História do Ensino Médico no Porto" (1916), among many others. The work "Professor Maximiano Lemos - inventário bibliográfico" (A Medicina Moderna, 1923) of Alberto Saavedra has indispensable information for the full knowledge of the literary and medical historical work of the Professor Maximiano Lemos.
