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Álvaro José de Lima Costa

2012; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Volume: 70; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0004-282x2012000700021

1678-4227

Marleide da Mota Gomes, Péricles Maranhão‐Filho,

History of Colonial Brazil

de Andrade Costa.Álvaro -as he liked to be called -has left us, but his legacy will always make us remember him, because of his qualities as a teacher: a professor to the core.He was greatly esteemed by his students, of whom many became professors of Neurology in different Brazilian universities.What most motivated him was to demonstrate the neurological method and the vernacular, making art meet the science of Neurology.This was his style, especially in the outpatient clinics and wards of the Deolindo Couto Institute of Neurology and the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).In classrooms, he enchanted his audience, especially the younger members, because Neurology was acted out almost like in the theater.His personality was unique: eccentric, with a great sense of humor, sometimes daring and with the spirit of a polemicist.He used refined language, with the appropriate tone, and he was scholar of the History of Medicine.He graduated in 1946, from the Medical School of the University of Brazil (today, UFRJ) and he became a teacher at the same school.He was one of the assistants of Professor Deolindo Couto who participated most in the outpatient and ward activities, discussing