"So that the young Paraguayan medics exercise a double mission, scientific and patriotic": the contribution of the naturalist and botanist Moisés Santiago Bertoni (La Civilización Guaraní, 1922-1927)

• Autor(a) principal: Fleck, Eliane
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.25761/anaisihmt.92

The Swiss naturalist and botanist Moisés Santiago Bertoni (1857- 1929) settled firstly in Misiones, Argentina (1884-1887), and after in Paraguay (1887-1929), where, in 1894, he founded the colony Puerto Bertoni and dedicated himself to research on the native fauna and flora and the natives, to the writing of his books – written in six languages and published through his publishing house, Ex-Sylvis –, as well as to the issuing of his observations in scientific publications of America and Europe. Throughout the almost four decades he lived in the region, Bertoni made sure to keep in tough with the production of the biggest centers of scientific research in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala and Equador, in particular, with the studies of Ethnology published in the Annaes da Biblioteca Nacional, in the Revista Brasileira and in the Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro. Among his most important works are the – unfinished – work Descripción física, econômica y social del Paraguay and the three tomes of La Civilización Guarani. This article concentrates, especially, on the Libro II of the latter work, entitled La Medicina Guaraní, dedicated by the author to the young Paraguayan medics, with the expectation that they understood their formation and work as a double mission, scientific and patriotic.