Jacob Mendes Da Costa
Physician
1833 – 1900
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Who was Jacob Mendes Da Costa?
Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa was an American physician and surgeon.
He taught at the Jefferson Medical College.
He is particularly known for discovering Da Costa's syndrome, an anxiety disorder that he first observed in soldiers in the American Civil War and documented in an 1871 study.
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