ABSTRACT
This is a study of how scientific knowledge reached common citizens in nineteenth-century Portugal, using newspapers as the main source. Despite the population's limited access to written material, each leading newspaper might be read by 30 000 people a day in Lisbon. This made newspapers the most widely available vehicle for the diffusion of the latest scientific information to the general public. With a cholera morbus epidemic affecting the second largest Portuguese town and all the northern regions, as well as the Algarve, reports on the course of the epidemic were considered essential. The author bases her study on a database of news about the disease in 1855 and 1856, especially with regard to prevention and treatment.
Subject(s)
Cholera Morbus/epidemiology , Cholera Morbus/history , Epidemics/history , Newspapers as Topic , Cholera Morbus/prevention & control , Cholera Morbus/therapy , Epidemics/prevention & control , History, 19th Century , PortugalABSTRACT
Desde su fundación la Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Cádiz estuvo manteniendo una relación científica con sus Socios Corresponsales nacionales y extranjeros, posiblemente sea la institución médica española que mayor intercambio mantuvo con los centros sanitarios de Europa y Ultramar durante el siglo XIX. Es el estudio de cólera morbo presentado en Granada en diferentes enfermos y bajo diferentes formas así como los signos, los síntomas y el tratamiento seguido terapéutico y régimen de vida seguido; indicando la influencia de la meteorología en el Cólera Morbo Indiano. El autor hace una exposición según una observación sobre las distintas formas del cólera morbo que se han presentado en Granada, y aporta una serie de casos, cuando él ocupaba el cargo de médico titular ya su vez era Académico Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Cádiz. En esta memoria se hace una revisión de los diferentes medicamentos aplicados bajo de todas las formas de cólera que se han presentado, entre los que incluye píldoras vermífugas de ruibarbo e hidrargirio dulce(AU)
Since its founding the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Cadiz has been managing as cientific relationship with Partners National Correspondents y foreign, arguably the greatest Spanish medical institution maintained exchanges with service providers in Europe and over seas during the nineteenth century. Study is presented in Granada cholera in different patients and different forms and signs, symptoms, and treatment regimen of life care, and followed; indicating the influence of weather on the Indian cholera. The author makes a statement as a comment on the various forms of cholera that have occurred in Granada, and provides a number of cases, when he was serving as attending physician and in turn was Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Cadiz. In this report we review the various drugs applied under all forms of anger that have been presented, among which includes birth hidrargirio vermifuge and sweet rhubarb(AU)
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , History, 19th Century , Cholera/diagnosis , Cholera/history , Cholera/therapy , Cholera Morbus/diagnosis , Cholera Morbus/history , Cholera Morbus/therapy , Geoffroya vermifuga/administration & dosage , Geoffroya vermifuga/history , Geoffroya vermifuga/therapeutic use , Rheum , Cholera Morbus/epidemiology , Cholera Morbus/prevention & controlABSTRACT
Esta monografia apresenta a evolução dos conhecimentos sobre o cólera desde o século passado até os dias de hoje. O texto relata as fases evolutivas da doença e descreve o uso dos medicamentos homeopáticos em seu tratamento e profilaxia, os quais se mostraram extremamente eficazes nas epidemias do século passado, proporcionando uma redução substancial de vítimas fatais. Um estudo com 102 pacientes tratados com homeopatiaprovou a eficácia do tratamento, a necessidade capital de iniciar-se o tratamento o mais precocemente possível e a estreita ligação entre condições de vida precárias e um rápido agravamento do quadro da doença (AU)
