Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a neurologist from the famous Salpêtrière school and a renowned maritime explorer, visited Brazil twice. The first visit was in 1903, when the first French Antarctic expedition, traveling aboard the ship Français, made a very short stopover in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. The second took place in 1908, during the famous voyage of the Pourquoi Pas? to the Antarctic,...

Anson's circumnavigation was characterised by his indomitable leadership which enabled men to triumph over medical and environmental disasters responsible for appalling suffering and loss of life. The medical bequest of the Anson voyage was not only the detailed descriptions of nutritional deficiency diseases in their various guises, but in the spirit of inquiry it generated, the recognition of...

cases of enteric fever. Dr John Clark described the fevers which occurred in the Honourable East India Company's ships from 1770-85.2 He describes an epidemic on the voyage from India, and states that "in the beginning of this fever, inflammatory symptoms chiefly prevailed, frequently with bilious vomiting, but in its progress it changed into a typhus, pr was succeeded by a flux." It is not too...

A Voyage up the River Amazon Including a Residence at Pará(Chapter XXIII) de William H. Edwards