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.
BT - Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos C1 -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37556716
DA - 01/2023 DO - 10.1590/S0104-59702023000100027 J2 - Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos LA - por,eng N2 -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.
PY - 2023 SP - 1 EP - 17 T2 - Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos TI - From Passos the Indian to Doctor Chernoviz: experiments to cure leprosy in nineteenth-century Pará. UR - https://www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/9YnDHxT35nhXrLrmjD5bnVd/?lang=en VL - 30 SN - 1678-4758 ER -