Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia: forty years of history

a From “Mar Português” (Portuguese Sea) by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa. The Brazilian Society of Pulmonology, founded in 1974, had various objectives, primarily to increase awareness of the specialty, to promote the exchange of new knowledge, and to publish the scientific production of pulmonologists working in Brazil. Therefore, we founded the Journal of Pulmonology, which would have to have, at its core, high quality technical and scientific content, with a view toward its later indexing as a scientific journal. It fell to me to be the first Director of the Journal. It is easy to imagine the various difficulties that had to be overcome for its publication to occur: the scarcity of economic resources, the obstacles to efficient communication, and the lack of computerization. Another problem to be overcome was related to the material to be published. To give the reader an idea of those difficulties, I paraphrase my editorial published in volume 2, issue 4 (1):