José Pinto de Azeredo e as Enfermidades de Angola: Saber Médico e Experiências Coloniais nas Últimas Décadas do Século XVIII

Abstract

The article analyzes the work of the luso-brazilian medicine doctor José Pinto de Azeredo Essay on some diseases of Angola (1799). From the perspective of this work and other sources, we seek to understand the ideas and conceptions of the medicine doctor about the diseases in Angola and how they are relate to medicine in the last decades of the eighteenth century, as well as the unique aspects that have marked his practice.

Conexões entre dois mundos. Prática médica, artes de curar e os saberes locais angolanos nos textos europeus ao longo do século XVIII

“…No caso africano, estes estudos estavam diretamente relacionados com o cotidiano colonizatório, e com o comércio de seres humanos e as dificuldades que diziam respeito, principalmente, ao clima e a saúde dos escravos antes, durante e depois das viagens até o destino final (Ferreira, 2012;Sweet, 2003, Abreu, 2016. (Abreu, 2012;Walker et all, 2016).…”

Western medicine in Africa to 1900, Part I: North, West and Central Africa

“…Their goal was to provide medical services for free to their nascent congregation in order to prevent converts from patronizing African healers, but little is known of the results (Iliffe, , p. 55). Much later, in the 1790s, Brazilian physician Jose Pinto de Azeredo taught a medical class in a hospital further south, in Angola, but the records show only two verifiable pupils, and the classes were discontinued when Azeredo left for Lisbon to pursue an academic career (Kananoja, , p. 461; Abreu, , p. 167).…”