Práticas populares de curas e o espaço do médico Francisco Ayres Da Silva no sertão brasileiro (1900 – 1930)

Abstract

With a progressive writing, the present master's thesis, in the first chapter, examines and identifies the knowledge, practices, theories and medicinal techniques practiced by indigenous peoples, Europeans, Africans and Brazilians. Highlighting and distinguishing what was considered popular healing practices and what was academic medicine, with the aim of understanding the transformations, fusions and permanences of academic medicine and folk medicine in the Brazilian colonial and Imperial period.Inthe second chapter our attention turns to the medical work of Francisco Ayres da Silva, in the city of Porto Nacional and region, through the newspaper 'Norte de Goyaz'.For the middle of the writing of medical Ayres, in the travel diary 'Caminhos de Outrara', we rescued and reconstructed popular healing practices, such as the use of medicinal plants and typical foods of the region, by boatmen, rowers, roceiros, riverside people and other sertanejos. who lived along the Tocantins River (Medium and Upper Tocantins) to cure their illnesses. The end of the conservative history of the eyes, seeks to preserve a significant way of making history, because reconstructing the popular and preserving theeyes of a doctor, in the same history of the preservation of Brazilian health, fighting, meaning against standards were defined before.