Hygiene practica dos paizes quentes, ou indaga›es acerca das causas e tratamento das molestias destas regi›es.

Typographia de M. Barreto. medicines, tropical climates, climate, fevers, Brazil, Brasil, Bresil, botany, veterinary medicine, mosquitos, chocolate, tobacco, coffee, digestion, hygiene, diseases, diet, nutrition First and only edition of this Portuguese translation, with revisions, from Celle's French work on tropical climates and their effect on the human body. Celle had been stationed at the Hospital Militar in Mazatlan. The translator, Domingos JosŽ Bernardino de Almeida, a native of Porto (b. 1828), adapted the work for Brazilians based on his own lengthy stay in the Americas. The work covers humid and dry hot climates: their effects on men, plants and animals; diseases from mosquitos and water; and the effects of native products such as chocolate, coffee and tobacco on the digestive tract.The translator was physician at the Hospital da Santa Casa de Misericordia in Rio de Janeiro, beginning in 1856, and at the Hospital da Sociedade Portugueza de Beneficencia in the same city, beginning in 1858. First Edition in Portuguese