Although fevers (with the exception of yellow fever) have not yet been fully explored by the historiography of Brazilian health, they were almost inevitable in nineteenth-century Brazilian society, affecting huge portions of the population. Their victims suffered from a wide variety of symptoms, and identification and treatment of these symptoms were the object of intense debates in medical circles. The Luso-Brazilian intelligentsia considered European medical debates as well as their own clinical experiences and attempted to provide answers in a flurry of publications. Even so, the manifestations of fever in the tropics presented a challenge that lay beyond their European training, forcing them to combine experiences acquired in different parts of the Empire to comprise specific knowledge on tropical fevers.
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de Freitas, R. C. (2020). The scorching tropics: Fevers and public health in brazil during the joanine period, 1808-1821. Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos, 27(3), 723–740. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702020000400002
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