Benchimol Jaime Larry, Sá Magali Romero, Alves da Cruz Mônica de Souza, Magalhàes de Andrade Márcio
Casa de Oswaldo Cruz.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2003;10(Suppl 1):361-96.
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 Fabricio 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.
该项目展示了巴西东北部马拉尼昂州一名麻风病患者家庭与医生兼细菌学家阿道夫·卢茨之间的全部信件。二十多年来，法布里西奥·卡尔达斯·德·奥利维拉和努马·皮雷斯·德·奥利维拉父子与这位科学家不断通信，寻求治愈自童年起就折磨着努马的疾病的方法。这里汇编的24封信描绘了这个家庭所面临的独特的医学和社会悲剧，以及他们使用大风子油和其他药物寻找替代治疗方法的结果。
