Correa Sílvio Marcus de Souza
Professor, Departamento de História/ Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis - SC - Brasil
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2020 Oct-Dec;27(4):1125-1147. doi: 10.1590/S0104-59702020000500006.
At the start of the twentieth century, some Portuguese physicians traveled to Africa to study sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis). One was Ayres Kopke, a member of the first medical mission to Portuguese West Africa and professor at the School of Tropical Medicine. After returning to Lisbon, Kopke continued his research, which included observation of patients brought to the metropolis. Starting in 1903, health departments in the colonies were responsible for sending patients with certain exotic diseases to the Colonial Hospital of Lisbon. Based on documents from this hospital including photographs of patients (who at that time were called "hypnotics"), this article discusses the importance of human experiments in Lisbon for advances in tropical medicine during the colonial period.
在20世纪初，一些葡萄牙医生前往非洲研究昏睡病（非洲锥虫病）。其中一位是艾雷斯·科普克，他是首个前往葡萄牙西非地区的医疗使团成员，也是热带医学院的教授。回到里斯本后，科普克继续他的研究，其中包括对带到首都的患者进行观察。从1903年开始，殖民地的卫生部门负责将患有某些外来疾病的患者送往里斯本殖民医院。基于这家医院的文件，包括患者的照片（当时这些患者被称为“催眠者”），本文讨论了里斯本的人体实验对殖民时期热带医学进步的重要性。
