Pânico e terror

a presença da cólera na Província do Espírito Santo (1855-1856)

Abstract

This is an investigation about how, in a certain period of the History of
Medicine in Espírito Santo, different actors (legislators, administrators,
doctors, healers and the general public) dealt with the surge of epidemics,
by verifying the changes and continuities, the attitudes and responses
that diseases, particularly cholera, have generated. When conducting
an investigation in the light of the new History of Medicine, it seeks to
show the social, political, economic and cultural human groups from the
occurrence of individual or collective sickness. The sources used were
official documents (administrative mail, resolutions, petitions, legal
requests, government reports) and printed media.