Leprosy, morphea or elephantiasis: the identification of a disease in the first half of the 19th century
Abstract
The aim of this article is to investigate how leprosy was incorporated in to medical-scientific literature and the national nosology in the first half of nineteenth-century. In this period, the first papers about leprosy were produced in Rio de Janeiro. The disease became part of the discussions of scientific associations, of academic papers and medical journals. We will approach how the elaboration of a collective knowledge about leprosy, following the scientific paradigm of the period, would conciliate anatomopathological practice, higienism and climatology, conferring a specifically national contour to the disease.
Key words: leprosy, Hansen’s disease, history of medicine, public health, 19th century.Downloads
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