[Cholera and environmental medicine in the manuscript "Cholera-morbus" (1832), by Antonio Correa de Lacerda (1777-1852)].
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the environmentalist paradigm dominated medical debate. In Brazil, it engendered the construction of a hygienist agenda that framed physicians' work and provided an interpretive key to public health-related issues The article addresses these and other questions from teh perspective of a text by Portuguese physician Antonio Correa de Lacerda who resided in Belém (Pará) and São Luís (Maranhão) between 1818 and 1852. Entitled "Cholera-morbus," the manuscript was written in 1832, the year the epidemic hit Paris. Lacerda calls on different areas of knowledge in his presentation of a coherent explanation of the disease, affording us a view of an anticontagionist interpretation grounded in anatomopathological practice. He likewise demonstrates how it was possible for a provincial doctor to produce original knowledge on the relation between climate, health, and culture, including the medicinal use of Amazon plants.
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D001938:Brazil; D002771:Cholera / Q000266:history*; D019550:Environmental Medicine / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*