01083nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260001200042100001500054245010500069856006800174300000900242490000700251520066500258022001400923       2023                            d  c01/20231 aHenrique M00aFrom Passos the Indian to Doctor Chernoviz: experiments to cure leprosy in nineteenth-century Pará.  uhttps://www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/9YnDHxT35nhXrLrmjD5bnVd/?lang=en  a1-170 v303 a<p>This article analyzes an experiment to cure leprosy using the assacu plant (Hura crepitans L.) conducted in Santarém, Pará, in 1847, by an Indigenous man named Antonio Vieira dos Passos. The experiment was later repeated in other Brazilian provinces and abroad. This article establishes relationships between medical practices in other parts of the country while focusing on the dialog between official and Indigenous medicine. Newspaper articles and official documents of the time show that Indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants was widely recognized and utilized by physicians wishing to incorporate it into the official therapeutic repertoire.</p>
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