title: [Hygiene and health preservation in the Luso-Brazilian medicine of the 18th century].
abstract: The present article analyzes the problematic of hygiene in the Luso-Brazilian medicine during the second half of 18th century. The chosen context to analysis is related to the changes of medical thought in Portugal along the period related to the appropriation of medical theories that circulated around the Enlightenment Europe. Besides, this paper approaches the ideas presented in medicine treatises of that time related to body care and health conservation, calling attention to the central role of hygiene along that period.
authors.affiliation: Unicersidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU).
authors.forename: Jean Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Neves Abreu
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D001938:Brazil / Q000208:ethnology; D006666:History of Medicine; D049671:History, 18th Century; D018594:Human Body; D040821:Human Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D007199:Indians, South American / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D011174:Portugal / Q000208:ethnology; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D012924:Social Conditions / Q000266:history