2003
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702003000100002
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Abstract: This article portrays the family origins and life story of Adolpho Lutz (1855-1940) up to his transfer to the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz in 1908. His life history is used as a motif for an analysis of the institution of pasteurian and tropical medicine in Brazil. His university and postgraduate study in German-speaking Europe are examined, as are his activities as a clinician and researcher on subjects related to helminthology, parasitology, veterinary medicine and bacteriology in the interior of São Paulo state; … Show more

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“…A opinião pública já assimilara a noção de que era causada não por 'miasmas', mas por um dos micróbios inscritos na agenda do debate científico ou, quem sabe, não descoberto ainda. Contudo, o relativo consenso fundamentado na teoria miasmática a respeito do que fazer para higienizar portos como o Rio de Janeiro dera lugar a candentes controvérsias sobre os elos a romper na cadeia da insalubridade urbana, variando as escolhas conforme os habitats e as peculiaridades de cada germe incriminado (Benchimol, 2003).…”
Section: Os Insetos Subvertem As Teorias Microbianasunclassified
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“…A opinião pública já assimilara a noção de que era causada não por 'miasmas', mas por um dos micróbios inscritos na agenda do debate científico ou, quem sabe, não descoberto ainda. Contudo, o relativo consenso fundamentado na teoria miasmática a respeito do que fazer para higienizar portos como o Rio de Janeiro dera lugar a candentes controvérsias sobre os elos a romper na cadeia da insalubridade urbana, variando as escolhas conforme os habitats e as peculiaridades de cada germe incriminado (Benchimol, 2003).…”
Section: Os Insetos Subvertem As Teorias Microbianasunclassified
“…The general public had already accepted the notion that it was caused not by 'miasmas', but by one of the microbes being discussed by scientists at the time or even by one as yet to be discovered. Nevertheless, the relative consensus, based on the miasma theory, as to how to ensure hygienic conditions at ports like Rio de Janeiro had ignited heated discussions about which links should be attacked in the chain of urban insalubrity, with measures varying according to the habitats and peculiarities of each germ incriminated (Benchimol, 2003).…”
Section: When Lutz Started His Career In 1880 Microbes Were Just Becmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The commissions conclusions, meant to serve as the basis for a draft law, 34 consisted of eleven items cast in the spirit of the contagionist program approved by the international congresses held in Berlin (1897) and Bergen (1909). The only exception was item IV, which defined the need to undertake culicidian prophylaxis, that is, a set of efficient measures against mosquitoes able to transmit leprosy, with all due rigor, in cases of individuals confined to their homes or in leper colonies and asylums or isolated in villages and colonies.…”
Section: The 1915 Controversy and Its Outcomesmentioning
confidence: 99%