Vol. 17 • n.1 • Jan.-Mar. 2010

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS The experience of a ‘weak and sick childhood’ far from home: the experience of the Maritime Asylum, Mar del Plata (1893-1920) Adriana Álvarez abstract Sport, medicine and art: the ‘enchanted science’ of the body in the works of Thomas Eakins Victor Andrade de Melo, Fabio de Faria Peres abstract A forgotten milestone of sanitation in Brazil: the water and sewage system of Ouro Preto (1887-1890) Alberto Fonseca, José Francisco do Prado Filho abstract Toxicity and apple production in southern Brazil Jó Klanovicz text in english Regulation of the use of animals in Brazil in the twentieth century and the process of forming the current regime applied to biomedical research Carlos José Saldanha Machado, Ana Tereza Pinto Filipecki, Márcia de Oliveira Teixeira, Helena Espellet Klein abstract From animal medical practitioners to veterinarians: historical note on animal medicine and the São Bento de Olinda Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Pernambuco (1912-1926) Lúcio Esmeraldo Honório de Melo, Francisco de Oliveira Magalhães, Argus Vasconcelos de Almeida, Cláudio Augusto Gomes da Câmara abstract Hollingshead and Redlich: research on social class and mental illness fifty years after Everardo Duarte Nunes text in english “Anything goes”?: the implicit dialogue between Paul Feyerabend and two Brazilian researchers, Maurício da Rocha e Silva and Newton Freire-Maia Francisco Inácio Bastos abstract Alice’s adventures in the wonderland of knowledge: the path to current literacy Javier Sanz-Valero, Luis David Castiel, Carmina Wanden-Berghe abstract Germanism and medicinal bathing in the early days of health resorts in Rio Grande do Sul Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa text in english SOURCES An unpublished manuscript of naturalist Manuel Ferreira da Câmara: “A note on 185 extraction from the mines of the Principality of Transylvania” (1796) Alex Gonçalves Varela abstract RESEARCH NOTES Sanitary education and public health in the State of Minas Gerais in the first half of the twentieth century Jean Luiz Neves Abreu abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS Parasitology as an example of the potential for general rules for science • review by Adauto Araújo and Fernando Salgueiro Passos Telles on Fundamentación epistemológica de la parasitología by Guillermo M. Denegri text in portuguese Natural history and medicine in the work of Adolpho Lutz (1855-1940) • review by Nelson Sanjad on Adolpho Lutz: Obra Completa, by Jaime L. Benchimol and Magali Romero Sá text in portuguese The land of the Mother of God • review by Marly de A.G.Vianna on Juazeiro do Padre Cícero: a terra da Mãe de Deus, by Paulo Capel Narvai and Paulo Frazão text in portuguese An ecumenical experience • review by María Silvia Di Liscia, on the site Cultures of Health text in spanish A panorama of buccal health in Brazil • review by Paulo Nadanovsky on Saúde bucal no Brasil: muito além do céu da boca, by Diogo Meyer and Charbel Niño El-Hani text in portuguese