01045nas a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001100001400042245010600056300001200162490000700174520072800181022001400909       2015                            d1 aGarcía M00aDebating Diseases in Nineteenth-Century Colombia: Causes, Interests, and the Pasteurian Therapeutics.  a293-3210 v893 a<p>This article explores the medical conceptualization of the causes of diseases in nineteenth-century Colombia. It traces the history of some of the pathologies that were of major concern among nineteenth-century doctors: periodic fevers (yellow fever and malaria), continuous fevers (typhoid fever), and leprosy (Greek elephantiasis). By comparing the transforming conceptualizations of these diseases, this article shows that their changing pattern, the idea of climatic determinism of diseases (neo-Hippocratism and medical geography), the weak standing of the medical community in Colombian society, as well as Pasteurian germ practices were all crucial in the uneven and varied reshaping of their understanding.</p>
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