Richard Gumbleton Daunt: The Man, the Physician and the City of Campinas (1843-1893).

Dr Richard Gumbleton Daunt was an Irish doctor born in England in 1843, related to the Daunts of Kilcascan Castle in Cork, who settled in the city of Campinas in the state of São Paulo. This paper describes Dr Daunt's forebears and the society in which he lived in Brazil and how they influenced his thinking. A staunch traditionalist, his Irish background and the privileged Brazilian elite of which, through his marriage, he became a part, were reflected in his views on medicine and politics of his adopted country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]