Jacob Mendes Da Costa
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Jacob Mendes Da Costa
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Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa was an American physician. He is particularly known for discovering Da Costa's syndrome, an anxiety disorder combining effort fatigue, dyspnea, a sighing respiration, palpitation and sweating that he first observed in soldiers in the American Civil War and documented in an 1871 study. He was born into the small community of Sephardi Jews on St. Thomas, then still a Danish colony. At the age of four, Da Costa left the island for mainland Europe, whe
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American physician
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