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FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL: THE LIFE OF A HANSENS DISEASE SUFFERER THROUGH HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH ADOLPHO LUTZ
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Luta pela sobrevivência: a vida de um hanseniano através da correspondência com Adolpho LutzAuthor
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O presente trabalho apresenta a série completa da correspondência da família de um portador do mal de Hansen residente no Maranhão, Nordeste do Brasil, com o médico e bacteriologista Adolpho Lutz. Fabrício Caldas de Oliveira e Numa Pires de Oliveira, pai e filho, mantiveram durante mais de vinte anos intensa troca de cartas com o cientista na busca da cura da doença que vitimava Numa desde criança. As 24 cartas aqui reunidas retratam, de maneira única, o drama médico-social enfrentado por esta família, os resultados do uso do chalmugra e outros medicamentos, a busca de tratamentos alternativos.
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This project presents the complete set of letters between the family of a Hansen's disease (leprosy) sufferer in the state of Maranhão, in the northeast of Brazil, and the doctor and bacteriologist Adolpho Lutz. For more than twenty years Fabrício Caldas de Oliveira and Numa Pires de Oliveira, father and son, exchanged a steady flow of letters with the scientist in pursuit of a cure for the disease that had assailed Numa since childhood. The 24 letters compiled here paint a unique portrait of the medical and social drama confronted by this family, and the results of the use of chaulmoogra oil and other medications in their search for alternative treatments.
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