Texts dealing with renal physiopathology in the journal “Annaes Paulista de Medicina e Cirurgia” (1913 – 1933)

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the texts dealing with renal physiopathology in the journal “Annaes Paulista de Medicina e Cirurgia” from 1913, when this journal was created and the Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia de São Paulo was installed, till 1933, when Escola Paulista de Medicina was inaugurated. 31articles were found, and from 1913 till 1924 this journal published only four articles. Since 1925 there was a significant increase in this number (total: 27), suggesting an increased interesse in renal studies in São Paulo. Most of the authors (53.3%) was from the Faculdade de Medicina de São Paulo, all from the male
gender. Most of the publications (89%) was of one author and none of them had more than 2. Review articles were the major publications (35.5%), followed by reports and clinical cases discussion (29%), description and /or communication of published articles in other journals (25.8%), experimental works (6.5%) and thesis analysis (3.2%). Experimental works only appeared in the journal after the edition of 1930 and the review ones after 1925.