“República dos ratos”: caos endêmico na Parahyba do Norte.

Abstract

This article is part of the research conducted in the research project "patriotic physicians”: medical knowledge and practice in the Republic of Parahyba (1900-1930). Through two epidemic outbreaks Parahyba in the First Republic (bubonic plague and smallpox) to examine: the introduction of medical practices of socio-spatial organization, the medical-scientific knowledge and the institutions responsible for health hygiene, medical surveillance, disinfection and vaccination . Methodologically, we analyze sources and newspaper reports of the State, considering them as a producer of truths, while showing how these words are plural and singular in relation to health, disease, health care and the actual cutting of Paraiba. These subject-author invented a speech for a Parahyba that has everything you be healthy, clean, but still far from the view expressed by the ideals of modern hygiene and sanitarização.