“Memento lues, delenda lues!” Prophylaxis and treatment of syphilis in the Revista de Medicina in the 1920s

The aim of this paper is to analyze the approaches to syphilis found in the Revista de Medicina, with an emphasis on reflecting on how this disease was thought of in the context of the 1920s, period when the hygienist doctrine had considerable membership among Brazilian doctors. Understood as a fact...

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Main Authors: Priscila Bermudes Peixoto, Leonardo Dallacqua de Carvalho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2018-12-01
Series:Esboços
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/43355