Administrative correspondence of the Instituto Butantan: issued formal letters from 1900 to 1905
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2014), Artigo Original
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2014)

Administrative correspondence of the Instituto Butantan: issued formal letters from 1900 to 1905

Artigo Original
https://doi.org/10.47692/cadhistcienc.2014.v10.33907
Published 2014-06-30
Gabriela Bassan Piedade
Graduada em História pela UNESP. Educadora do Museu Histórico do Instituto Butantan.
Francisco Marcio de Souza Silva
Graduado em Biblioteconomia pela UFSCAR. Bolsista do Programa de Aprimoramento Profissional da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde e FUNDAP, no Instituto Butantan.
Cinthia Midori Shimada
Graduada em História pela USP. Bolsista do Programa de Aprimoramento Profissional da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde e FUNDAP, no Instituto Butantan.
Adriana Mortara Almeida
Graduada em História e Doutora em Ciências da Informação e Comunicação pela USP. Diretora do Museu Histórico do Instituto Butantan.
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Keywords

Serumtherapic Institute
immunization
snakes
bubonic plague
Vital Brazil

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Piedade, G. B., Silva, F. M. de S., Shimada, C. M., & Almeida, A. M. (2014). Administrative correspondence of the Instituto Butantan: issued formal letters from 1900 to 1905. Cadernos De História Da Ciência, 10(1), 93–114. https://doi.org/10.47692/cadhistcienc.2014.v10.33907
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Abstract

Butantan Institute preserves the formal letters sent by its first director Vital Brazil. These letters contain data about the day by day needs for the organization of the production of antiplague serum and vaccine. Requests to buy products and services for installation of stables and laboratories suitable for production provide details about the products and suppliers from 1900 to 1905, in São Paulo. Invoices recorded values of purchased products and services. The beginning of production, distribution and dissemination of antiophidic sera is also present in these documents. Five themes were chosen to describe the letters: infrastructure; research and scientific questions; gathering, purchase and exchange of snakes; production and distribution; divulgation.

https://doi.org/10.47692/cadhistcienc.2014.v10.33907
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References

Brazil V. A defesa contra o ofidismo. São Paulo: Pocai& Weiss, 1911.
Instituto Butantan. Instituto Serumtherapico do Estado de S. Paulo, Brasil. São Paulo: Est. Pocai-Weiss, 1914.
Jhala HI. W.M.W.Haffkine Bacteriologist – a Great Saviour of Mankind. IJHS, vol.2 n. 2, p.105-120, 1967.

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