The illustrated medicine and its reception by the physicians who work in nineteenth-century Brazil

Abstract

In the seventeenth and nineteenth medical knowledge has undergone remarkable transformations in response, among other things, to anthropocentrism that, in the Age of Enlightenment, expressed in the increase of intellectual efforts to make knowledge a capable tool to help improve the human life. This paper will analyze how this happened, and especially as the medical elite who served in Brazil, after the arrival of the royal family to Rio de Janeiro, assimilated the changes that were occurring in medicine and tried to put them into practice in the country.