{"id":12330,"date":"2020-11-23T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=12330"},"modified":"2020-12-24T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:52:52","slug":"fevers-in-the-tropics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/fevers-in-the-tropics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fevers in the tropics"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 2020<\/p>\n

Reports about health conditions\u00a0in 19th century Rio de Janeiro are already\u00a0well known by historians. At the time of the arrival of the Portuguese Royal Family, tropical diseases became\u00a0a matter of great concern\u00a0for the Crown, who was eager to\u00a0turn the new capital of the Portuguese Empire into a tropical Lisbon.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the century, cholera and, above all, yellow fever, have been prominent not only on the government’s agenda, but also in the popular imagination. However, in addition to these diseases, there were others that did not acquire the same prominence\u00a0but were also\u00a0part of the city life.<\/p>\n

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The Doctor (1890), by Sir. Luke Fildes\/ Tate Gallery<\/a>, London<\/p><\/div>\n

The scorching tropics: fevers and public health in Brazil during the Joanine period, 1808-1821<\/a>, by Ricardo Cabral de Freitas,\u00a0Post-doctoral researcher at PPGHCS<\/a> (COC \/ Fiocruz) explores how fevers affected social life in Brazil in the early nineteenth century and the efforts to establish medical knowledge about fevers in tropical environments.<\/p>\n

The research showed that despite the yellow fever’s role, the population of the capital was also affected by several feverish manifestations that victimized individuals from practically all social strata. Among the high court circles, less than a year after the transfer of the Family to Brazil, Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro lamented the death of Conde da Ponte, governor of Bahia, caused by a \u201ccontinuous fever\u201d. In 1812, the Infante Dom Pedro Carlos de Bourbon e Bragan\u00e7a was a fatal victim of a \u201cslow nervous fever\u201d, while D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho was taken by a \u201cmalignant fever\u201d also in the same year.<\/p>\n

The author shows, however, that the diagnosis of fevers was not always a simple task, as its\u00a0identification and treatment were still the subject of intense debate in medical circles both in Brazil and in Europe.<\/p>\n

In this sense, the feverish manifestations found in the tropics represented an extra challenge to the European training of most of the doctors installed in the new capital.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

A SA\u00daDE PUBLICA NO RIO DE DOM JO\u00c3O. Rio de Janeiro: Senac, 2008.<\/p>\n

MARROCOS, Luiz Joaquim dos Santos. Cartas de Luiz Joaquim dos Santos Marrocos, escritas do Rio de Janeiro \u00e0 sua fam\u00edlia em Lisboa, de 1811 a 1821. In.: Anais da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro<\/em>.v.55. Rio de Janeiro: Minist\u00e9rio da Educa\u00e7\u00e3o, 1939.<\/p>\n

HAMLIN, Christopher.\u00a0More than hot<\/em>: a short history of fever. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

See our latest issue:\u00a0vol.27 no.3\u00a0 July\/Sept. 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

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