Do índio Passos ao doutor Chernoviz: experiências de cura da lepra no Pará do século XIX
This article analyzes an experiment to cure leprosy using the assacu plant (Hura crepitans L.) conducted in Santarém, Pará, in 1847, by an Indigenous man named Antonio Vieira dos Passos. The experiment was later repeated in other Brazilian provinces and abroad. This article establishes relations...
| Autor principal: | COUTO, Márcio Couto |
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| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | por |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
2023
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https://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/16046 |
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This article analyzes an experiment to cure leprosy using the assacu plant (Hura crepitans L.) conducted in Santarém, Pará,
in 1847, by an Indigenous man named Antonio Vieira dos Passos. The experiment was later repeated in other Brazilian provinces
and abroad. This article establishes relationships between medical practices in other parts of the country while focusing on the dialog
between official and Indigenous medicine. Newspaper articles and official documents of the time show that Indigenous knowledge
of medicinal plants was widely recognized and utilized by physicians wishing to incorporate it into the official therapeutic repertoire. |