A monument to Lazarus: the leprosy hospital of Rio de Janeiro
Soon after the Portuguese made landfall in 1500, Europeans and, later, African slaves introduced leprosy, and Saint Lazarus, the patron saint of its victims, into Brazil. Social and political pressure mounted by the middle of the eighteenth century in the city of Rio de Janeiro to remove those unfor...
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| Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2003-01-01
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| Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702003000400007&tlng=en |