TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Henrique Dumont: how a traumatic brain injury contributed to the development of the airplane JO - Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria A1 - Demartini, Zeferino A1 - Gatto, Luana A. Maranha A1 - Lages, Roberto Oliver A1 - Koppe, Gelson Luis SP - 60 EP - 62 VL - 77 IS - 1 N2 - The life and death of Henrique Dumont (1832-1892) is little known, being usually remembered as Alberto Santos-Dumont's father. This report describes the history of this Brazilian engineer, also known as the King of Coffee, who achieved enormous business success and fortune in the late nineteenth century. In 1890, during the inspection of his farm, the world's largest coffee plantation at that time, he fell from a carriage, which left him a hemiplegic. This forced him to sell the farm and move to France for treatment. Before his death two years later, he gave his 18-year-old son bits of advice, and distributed his inheritance, which allowed Alberto to study in Paris and finance his experiments that would culminate in the development of the airplane. The diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities are also discussed.
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LA - en SN - 0004-282X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0004-282X20180149 ID - ref1 ER -