Amílcar Augusto Queirós de Sousa (; 1876–1940) was a Portuguese medical doctor, and author of many health books, the most famous of which being O Naturismo (Naturism), published in 1912.
Biography
A pioneer of vegetarianism in Portugal, he was the president of the first Portuguese vegetarian society,Vegetarianism in Portugal: a century of history European Vegetarian Union the Sociedade Vegetariana de Portugal, founded in the city of Porto, 1911,O Utopista portuense Ângelo Jorge: Subsídios para a sua biografia and the director of O Vegetariano (The Vegetarian), a monthly magazine on vegetarianism.
A native of Alijó, Sousa corresponded with many well-known personalities from medicine and science, such as the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel,O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado, III Volume, 1912, p. 32 and 135 the American medical doctor John Harvey Kellogg,O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado, III Volume, 1912, p. 31 and the French physician Paul Carton.O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado, III Volume, 1912, p. 382
He advocated a raw vegetarian diet.O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado, (in various articles) He was also against eggs, milk, tobacco and alcohol. He said that eating an egg was the same as ”eating a chicken embryo”O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado, V Volume, 1914, p. 350. and that milk was “not the food of man.”O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado, III Volume, 1912, p. 50.
D. M. Richardson wrote in the magazine The Healthy Life (July, 1912):
He was also a pacifist and frequently criticized war in his articles.
He considered Pythagoras to be the most notable philosopher of all timeInterview in the newspaper A Capital, 11-1-1920. and wrote that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the best educator, as in Émile, or On Education, he valued education in contact with nature.O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado X Volume, p. 179
He was also an active defender of the interests of Duriense Viticulture, arguing, in conferences and articles in the periodic press, for the creation of the Casa do Douro as one of the necessary bodies to guarantee the high quality of Port Wine and promote the expansion of its Trade.
Sousa died in Porto in 1940.
Books in Spanish Most of his books have been translated to Spanish. Some of them are: El naturismo La Gutenberg. 1913. Valencia.Libros sobre Naturismo Sociedad Vegetariana Naturista de Valencia Education, Physical Activities and Sport in a Historical Perspective La salud por el naturismo La Gutenberg. 1918. ValenciaCatálogo Coletivo das Bibliotecas dos Arquivos Estatais e da Biblioteca do CIDA Tesis médica naturista La curación del estreñimiento Catecismo naturista El naturismo en veinte lecciones Cómo detendremos la muerte? (with Capo, N.) Tesis Medica Naturista. Sauch. 1976. BarcelonaCatálogo general de libros Antiguos
See also Fruitarianism Veganism Raw foodism
Sources O Vegetariano: Mensário Naturista Ilustrado, Porto. Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira, Edição de Editorial Enciclopédia, limitada, 1936, volume 29, p. 761. Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira, Edição de Editorial Enciclopédia, limitada, 1936, volume 34, p. 416. Delmar Domingos de Carvalho, Vegetarianismo, a solução para uma vida e um mundo melhor, Editorial Minerva, Lisboa, 2009 A fotografia como prova documental da robustez dos vegetaristas, vegetarianos e frugívoros
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