This book is based on a doctoral
dissertation made in Brazil on the history of medicine,
focusing particurlaly on the 19th century, during which
took place the most memorable and important changes, that
would transform medicine and public health forever. It
covers issues that had to be dealth with in order to
improve Brazilian health conditions, such as supperstition,
curators, midwives, slavery, charlatans, the malpractice of
medicine, the slow transformation of medicine into a
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