title: Henrique da Rocha Lima.
abstract: Brazilian physician and researcher Henrique da Rocha Lima was born in 1879 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he studied medicine and obtained the degree of M.D. in 1901. He specialized in Clinical Medicine in Germany and was the ambassador in European countries of the scientific medicine that emerged from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in the early twentieth century. Rocha Lima has discovered the causative agent of typhus and had a major contribution to the studies of yellow fever, Chagas disease, Carrión's disease and histoplasmosis. His genius, his research and his discoveries projected his name, and, with it, the image of Brazil in the international scientific scene.
authors.affiliation: Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Dermatology Prof. Rubem David Azulay, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bernardes Filho
authors.affiliation: Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Dermatology Prof. Rubem David Azulay, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: João Carlos Regazzi
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Avelleira
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D001938:Brazil; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000266:history