Film premier on March 30th, 2012. Starring Rodrigo Santoro and winner of several awards, “Heleno” recalls the life of Heleno de Freitas, a spectacular soccer player from Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. The athlete died at the age of 39, admitted to a sanatorium in the city of Barbacena, Minas Gerais. Heleno was diagnosed with syphilis …
Law 13.430 was enacted by President Michel Temer. The Bill (PLC 146/2015), authored by the federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro, Chico D’Angelo, originated at the VI Congress of the Brazilian Society of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, in 2006, on a proposal initiated by the doctor and professor from the Fluminense Federal University, Mauro Romero Leal …
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“Tribute to Venus: the fight against syphilis in Brazil, from the turn of the century to the 1940s”, by Sérgio Luiz Carrara. Doctoral thesis defended in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the National Museum of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In 1996, due to solid research work, it was transformed into a …
Antônio Austregésilo Rodrigues de Lima was born in Recife, on April 21st, 1876. Considered the precursor of neurology in Brazil, he coined the expression “it is necessary to think syphilitically”, due to the high prevalence of the disease at that time (which, in fact, persists until today) and its characteristics of imitating countless other diseases, …
Ulrich von Hutten was born on April 21st, 1488. He was a German knight, scholar, and satirical poet, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer. In the last 15 years of his life, Hutten suffered from the “French disease” (or syphilis), from which he died. He wrote, in 1519, “De …
Erich Hoffmann was born on April 25th, 1868. Hoffmann is remembered for his research with zoologist Fritz Schaudinn (1871-1906) at the Charité Clinic in Berlin. In 1905, Schaudinn and Hoffmann discovered the bacterium responsible for syphilis, a spiral-shaped spirochete called Treponema pallidum. The organism was removed from a papule on the vulva of a patient …
For the first time, the poem by Girolamo Fracastorii has been fully published in a book containing photos of the original from 1530, in Latin, accompanied by the Portuguese version. Much of this Portuguese version was prepared by the Portuguese doctor Bettencourt Raposo, between 1883 and 1885. Part of it was presented in a magnificent …
