A medicina e a influenza espanhola de 1918

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Abstract

No início do século XX, a pandemia de gripe espanhola suscitou uma ampla discussão em meio à comunidade cientifica internacional a respeito da sua natureza e do seu agente causal. Através deste artigo, buscamos apresentar algumas das controvérsias que marcaram os debates médicos em torno desta manifestação da influenza, abordando as teorias pré-bacterianas e a noção bacteriana da doença, destacando a proposição de Pfeiffer e a suposição da ação de agentes invisíveis, então chamados vírus filtráveis.Au début du XXe siècle, la pandémie de grippe espagnole a suscité une grande discussion au sein de la communauté scientifique internationale concernant la nature de l'agent qui cause cette maladie. Cet article essaye d'évoquer quelques controverses qui ont marqué les débats médicaux dans ce cadre de manifestation de l'influenza, en abordant les théories pré-bactériennes et la notion bactérienne de la maladie, en soulignant la proposition de Pfeiffer et la supposition de l'action des agents invisibles, à l'époque dénommés virus filtrables.In the beginning of the 20th century, the Spanish Flu pandemics led to a wide discussion among the international scientific community about the nature and the causal agent of the disease. This paper intends to discuss some of the controversies that characterized the medical discourse about this manifestation of the flu, looking at the pre-bacterial theories and the bacterial notion of the disease, in particular Pfeiffer's proposition, and the supposition of the action of invisible agents, so called filterable viruses.

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Silveira, A. J. T. (2005). A medicina e a influenza espanhola de 1918. Tempo, 10(19), 91–105. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1413-77042005000200007

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