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Abstract
The present work tried to find out how the development of Belem, during
the 19 th century, caused or intensified the problems that already existed, amidst
those ones the public health, especially the smallpox epidemic. In terms of times,
was highlighted the end of the 19 th century, when was intense the debate about the
need to make the city more modern. The project to achieve that target was
characterized by the excludents principles of the Science of Higiene. This way, this
research focused from the year of 1884 to 1904, which was marked by the three
smallpox outbreaks in Belem. The main objective of this work was to show the
reasons for the intolerance that people had to the ways to prevent the diseases and
the therapeutics practices guided by the government, especially the politic of
isolation based on the hygienist speech and, as well, the vaccine. The result of this
experience during the 19 th century in Belem, was negative, resulting in a repulse of
these practices.
Key-words: Modernity, Higiene, Vaccine.
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