From slaveholders monarchy to paulista republic, Brazil 1850-1849

The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany

Ethnotaxonomy of mastofauna as practised by hunters of the municipality of Paulista, state of Paraíba-Brazil

It was aimed in the present work to report aspects related to identification, naming and categorization of the mastofauna species of the caatinga biome, according to hunters' knowledge of Northeast Brazil. The methods of free and semi-structured interviews and guided tours were applied here. The data obtained were analyzed under the emic/etic point of view by comparing the local people's knowle...

Brazilian Business Cycles and Growth from 1850 to 2000

We study the cyclical and growth properties of Brazilian per capita output from 1850 to 2000. We find that, contrary to some developed countries, Brazil did not experience large changes in the volatility of per capita output. However, we obtained evidence that the oscillations in economic activity became more persistent after World War II. KeywoRds per capita GDP, business cycles, growth, Brazi...

The conveyance of patients to and from hospital, 1720--1850.

The long-established system of both financing hospitals and affording treatment for sponsored patients through donations and subscriptions made in earlier years by numerous charitable persons needs no treatment here, but the fact remains that their actions did much to speed the acceptance of the people they recommended, for delays often meant death. These benefactors, known variously as Governo...

Physiology 1850–1923. The view from Michigan

cerned with all organic phenomena and thus embraced pathology. Furthermore, fever was seen by R6schlaub not as disease per se as hitherto but as a symptom of an anomaly in the normally balanced relationship between the organism and its external environment. But above all, Brown's theory of excitability offered an intellectual basis for therapy. Tsouyopoulos shows convincingly that the crisis of...