John Ligertwood Paterson

John Ligertwood Paterson (September 14, 1820 – December 9, 1882) was a Scottish physician who lived and worked in Bahia, Brazil.

[2] Paterson co-founded the Tropicalista School of Medicine in Brazil, along with O. E. H. Wucherer (1820-1873) and José Francisco da Silva Lima (1826-1910).

Deeply interested in botanical science, he donated about forty tropical plants to the Society's garden, including Musa coccinea (the "flowering banana").

[2] He died suddenly in Salvador, the provincial capital, having returned there from Edinburgh to look after his brother Alexander, who was suffering from paralysis.

[4] In 1887, a monument with a bust of Paterson was erected in what is now the Graça district, bearing the following inscription in English and Portuguese: "As a testimony of friendship, esteem, and gratitude, this monument was erected by the public to the memory of John Ligertwood Paterson, on this site which was granted by the municipal council of the City of Bahia, President Dr. Augusto Ferreira França, and President of the Province Counsellor Pedro Luiz Pereira de Souza.