Memoirs of a Barber Surgeon, Romance by Heitor Rosa

Memoirs of a Barber Surgeon, a novel by Heitor Rosa released on October 19th, 2006 during the XI Congress of History of Medicine, in Goiânia, Goiás, about the life of Girólamo Fracastorii (as Heitor wrote), author of the poem Siphylis sive morbus gallicus. The story is told by Fracastorii’s assistant, barber-surgeon Gioacchino dalla Rosa. Rosa’s masterpiece, award winning physician and professor of gastroenterology at the School of Medicine of Universidade Federal de Goiás. The novels Barber and Notre Dame Judgment were the result of years of study by Hector in England and France.