A monument to Lazarus: the leprosy hospital of Rio de Janeiro

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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Main Author: Thomas Hunter Smith III
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz 2003-01-01
Series:História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
Subjects:
leprosy
Hospital Frei Antônio
leprosy hospital
hygienic movement
history of medicine
public health
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702003000400007&tlng=en

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