[Disease in the cloisters: requests to leave Convento da Ajuda, Rio de Janeiro, for the treatment of contagious diseases, c.1750-1780]. / A clausura enferma: petições para a saída do Convento da Ajuda no Rio de Janeiro para tratamento de doenças contagiosas, c.1750-1780.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
; 23(3): 719-32, 2016.
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ABSTRACT
This article discusses the requests submitted by nuns from Convento da Ajuda (Ajuda Convent) to leave their life of enclosure to receive treatment for contagious diseases. Disease was one of the few cases in which nuns were granted permission to leave. The female orders were strictly cloistered in order to preserve their purity as virgins consecrated to Christ. Extant documents detail the causes of the diseases, the ways they were transmitted, and the treatments used to fight them. These processes shed light on the procedures adopted outside the cloisters so that the nuns did not jeopardize their reclusion and honor when they went to distant places in search of treatment.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Religión y Medicina
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Catolicismo
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Enfermedades Transmisibles
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Monjas
Límite:
Female
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
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Pt
Revista:
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIA
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HISTORIA DA MEDICINA
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2016
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Article