Epidemia de febre amarela no Brasil em fins do século XIX e início do século XX:

análise de conteúdo em cartas trocadas com o médico Adolpho Lutz

Abstract

This paper provides the investigation and analysis of the scientific mailing which the
Brazilian physician Adolpho Lutz received from his peers about yellow fever epidemic in the field of
Tropical Medicine in Brazil from the late 19th century to the 1940’s. Adolpho Lutz was a physician and
researcher at the Instituto Bacteriológico de São Paulo, currently Instituto Adolpho Lutz, and at the
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro. The research does both a quantitative and a qualitative and
the method adopted was Content Analysis, in order to better identify the topics addressed by Lutz’s
colleagues, enabling the mapping of terminological relationships in Epidemic Yellow fever letter.
Lutz's invisible college can be identified through the network of correspondents.