“…Upon leaving the editorial board in 1982 and handing it over to Professor Aluízio Prata, Lea recalled the difficulties faced in meeting the journal’s expenses with the help of some pharmaceutical laboratories and the annuities paid irregularly by the Members of the Society 1 . Possibly because of having embraced and protected the journal so fiercely for so many years, Lea concluded that “maintaining this Journal... was to keep José Rodrigues da Silva’s dream alive, and it meant to me the greatest proof of dedication and love for SBMT, which which I am proud to have founded and where I am proud to belong.”…”