{"id":543483,"date":"2025-03-20T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=543483"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:12:02","slug":"letters-and-portraits-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/letters-and-portraits-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters and portraits of science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Em\u00edlio Ribas Museum of Public Health \u2013 Butantan Institute<\/span>Emilio Ribas (right<\/em>) visiting Hospital de IsolamentoEm\u00edlio Ribas Museum of Public Health \u2013 Butantan Institute<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In letters exchanged with his colleagues at the beginning of the twentieth century, Brazilian physician Em\u00edlio Ribas (1862\u20131925) presented hypotheses on the transmission of yellow fever and reported on the difficulties of tackling the diseases of his time \u2014 including smallpox and leprosy \u2014 as director of the S\u00e3o Paulo State Health Service. Fifty-five of his letters are summarized online in the Inventory of the Em\u00edlio Marcondes Ribas Fund, recently launched by the Em\u00edlio Ribas Public Health Museum (MUSPER)<\/a>, managed by the Butantan Institute. Organized by Augusto Silva Lima Gomes dos Santos and Maria Talib Assad, the inventory contains photos of Ribas and his family from between 1887 and 1910, personal documents, and references to his publications \u2014 such as the final thesis he presented at the School of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro in 1887, titled \u201cImminent death of newborns; treatment.\u201d The collection can be seen in person by appointment. The MUSPER museum also houses 32 personal objects, such as pairs of glasses, a microscope, a quill pen, and furniture that belonged to the doctor described by Vital Brazil (1865\u20131950) as a \u201cman of action\u201d in 1936.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Em\u00edlio Ribas’s inventory contains letters, photos, and personal documents","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[241,247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-543483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-history","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543489,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543483\/revisions\/543489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543483"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=543483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}