(2012-03) MIRANDA, Aristóteles Guilliod de; ABREU JUNIOR, José Maria de Castro
This article outlines a biography of Anna Turan Machado Falcão. Born in 1862 in Igarapé-Miri, Pará State, Brazil, Dr. Anna Turan was Para's first physician. She graduated in the United States of America in 1887. After returning to Brazil and validating her diploma at the Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, she worked in the states of Pará, Acre and São Paulo, where she died in 1940.
