From Passos the Indian to Doctor Chernoviz

Experiments to cure leprosy in nineteenth-century Pará

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ID3059124
AuthorsMarcio Couto Henriques (0000-0002-0170-5315, Universidade Federal do Pará, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume30
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702023000100027en
OpenAlexW4385587970
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

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

Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies · Phytochemistry Medicinal Plant Applications

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