
Historia Critica es una publicación del departamento de Historia y Geografía de la Universidad de los Andes
One of the aspects that received the most attention from nineteenth-century journalists was the hygiene and health of the population of Rio de Janeiro. Women and men became the targets of a series of prescriptions in the press that described how the people of the city should care for their body and health, after all, a healthy body was a prerequisite for shaping men and women suitable to contribute to the future of the Empire.