ARTIGOS LIVRES DOCTOR THOMAS E A Jaime L. MEDICINA TROPICAL BENCHIMOLi NA AMAZÔNIA NO
[email protected] iFundação Oswaldo Cruz INÍCIO DO SÉCULO XX Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil Doctor Thomas and tropical medicine in Amazonia in the beginning of the XXth century RESUMO ABSTRACT Harold Howard Shearme Wolferstan Thomas Harold Howard Shearme Wolferstan Thomas foi um pesquisador da Escola de Medicina was a researcher from the Liverpool School of Tropical de Liverpool que teve fugaz destaque Tropical Diseases who enjoyed brief prominence na medicina britânica na época em que foi in British medicine at the time he was transferred deslocado para a Amazônia (1905). Cinco anos to Amazonia (1905). Five years earlier, an antes, uma expedição da mesma Escola estivera overseas expedition from this school had been na região para investigar a febre amarela. in the region to investigate yellow fever. When Thomas e Anton Breinl viajaram para Manaus Thomas and his colleague Anton Breinl set sail ainda com o objetivo de estudar essa doença. for Manaus, their mission was still to investigate Naquele intervalo, transcorreram processos this disease. In the interval between the two muito dinâmicos na medicina tropical, em expeditions, dynamic processes were underway particular no tocante às tripanossomíases. in the realm of tropical medicine, especially Thomas ganhou projeção ao demonstrar que with regard to trypanosomiasis. Thomas gained o atoxyl era eficaz no tratamento de animais recognition when he showed that atoxyl was e humanos infectados por tripanossomos. No an effective treatment for humans and animals presente artigo, Thomas é o fio que conduz infected with trypanosomes.