The medicines in Minas Gerais from three eighteenth century’s manuals
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https://doi.org/10.11606/khronos.v0i9.168976Keywords:
Medicine, Minas Gerais, Eighteenth centuryAbstract
This article presents and discusses three medical manuals written by surgeons in Brazilian Minas Gerais – the Erário Mineral (1736), the Relação cirúrgica e médica (1747) and the Governo de Mineiros [...] (1770). Considering this sources, the limits of the performance of this professionals in the Portuguese colony in Americas and the writing of prescriptive works by non-physicians will be discussed, questioning, among other issues, which diseases they have recurrently identified, which treatments were indicated, which medical references they have used, what sort of medicine was commonly prescribed (and for whom). Through this path, the goal is to give the main contours of what was an important facet of the official practice of healing in the Minas Gerais of the Eighteenth century.
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