History of Latin American Dermatology

PAULO R. CUNHAClínicas. In 1967, he went back to his native area and participated in a contest for academicassistant at the UFSC, where he reached the status of full professor in 1990. Hewas one of the founders of the SC Regional of the BSD, and the first President of theSouth-Brazil Dermatology Meeting, held in Florianópolis in 1981.■ Dermatology in the in states the statesThese vigorous generations, with their thirst for new paths, were the result of the encouragementto scientific research provided by the renovated dermatological education,by the arrival of new specialized fields in other regions of the country, and by the synergizingaction of the BSD.Indeed, Dermatology was becoming bigger. In the 1920s and 30s, according to RabelloJúnior, “the Chair in Belo Horizonte, led by Antonio Aleixo (1884-1943), was to mark thearrival of a new center for studies in the country, with papers and novel publications inthe twin areas of venereology and hansenology, with Orsini de Castro (1892-1970) standingout in Dermatology and O. Diniz (1902-1966) in hansenology. Original works of majorscope were developed by Cl. de Castro, Oswaldo Costa (Chair of the Federal University)and Tancredo Furtado (Chair of the MGFU)” 3 . Costa was the author of a remarkable thesison acrokeratosis (1960), while Furtado did the same in 1955 with frambesia.Likewise, a large dermatological center was set up in Juiz de Fora, with Antônio CarlosPereira and Carlos Adolfo Pereira. Between 1922 and 1940, important Brazilianworks on pemphigus foliaceous were published, including those of J. P. Vieira(1927) andOrsini de Castro (1940).Founded in 1916, São Paulo’s Medical School rapidly had a Dermatology Chair, thehead of which was Adolpho Lindemberg (1872-1944), author of pioneering works ontegumentary leishmaniasis and pemphigus foliaceous. His disciple Nicolau Rossetti(1894-1956) was later Head of the Chair of Dermatology at the Paulista Medical School,where his successor was the leprologist and dermatologist Abrahão Rotberg, author ofremarkable works on the Mitsuda reaction, the Montenegro reaction and necrotizingangeitis. Rabello reports:In the 1930s, J. Aguiar Pupo, Eduardo Rabello’s favorite disciple, took over the Chairof Dermatology at São Paulo University, where he rapidly formed a large school.Along the lines of the Brazilian tradition. Aguiar Pupo dominated hansenology withequal quality, with pioneering works in that area. He would be succeeded in 1957 bySebastião Sampaio, a young professor with a good histological education, who wouldprovide great encouragement for work in the field of skin structure and functions, ingenetics, and in immune pathology. In São Paulo, other luminaries would stand out,such as H. Cerruti in Sorocaba, L. M. Bechelli and W. Pimenta in Ribeirão Preto, allfrom Aguiar Pupo’s school. The young deserve a special mention, among whom areNey Romiti, a disciple of Ramos e Silva, Marchionini and Raimundo Martins de Castro,initially a professor in Campinas, who had his illustrious father as teacher, A.Martins de Castro (1885-1968), a specialist versed in mycology, histopathology andRoentgen therapy 2 .We mention here only some of the national dermatologists who studied with the greatmasters from abroad:1. Olympio da Fonseca Filho, Nicolau Rossetti and Abílio Martins de Castro workedwith Raymond Sabouraud, at the Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris.2. J. Luiz Miranda was an intern at Duke University, with N.F. Conant.3. Eduardo Rabello frequented the Curietherapy Service of Necker Hospital, under the84