Cidade (in) salubre: idéias e práticas médicas em Fortaleza - (1838-1853)

Abstract

The following work analizes the ideas and the medical practice, mainly the ones from José Lourenço de Castro Silva and Liberato de Castro Carreira, the first Cearence doctors graduated at Rio de Janeiro medical shcool, working in Fortaleza since 1838. It states the starting point of the medical actions influenced by social medicine, in which it thinks over the day-to-day actions considering the desease and the unhealthy city. The medical actions put into effect are the following: the creation and organization of urban areas(graveyards, hospitas, markets, penitenciary), the preventive orientation and the healing of the deseases, mainly the epidemics of smallpox in 1845 and yellow fever from 1851 to 1853. In this study, the main sources used were The Description of epidemics of yellow fever in the province of Ceará State in 1851 and 1852 by Castro Carreira, from Rio de Janeiro National Library: forms and medical manuals, from the Unicamp central library: medical and presidential forms, laws, correspondences, diverse documents belonging to the Ceará State Public Archive (APEC), and also documents from the Governor Menezes Pimentel Public Library.