Abstract
In the first half of the 18th century, treatments for infirmities, surgical procedures and measures of care towards the body directed for the health of subjects continued to be divulged in works of Medicine still under Hippocratic-Gallenic inspiration. In Portugal, in this period, many of the medical treaties were written or, then, translated with the purpose of facilitating the identification of certain illnesses, their symptoms and the adoption of the therapeutic practices most indicated for their treatment, and which foresaw from recipes, whose ingredients included medicinal plants and food, to surgical procedures. This article detains itself over the works Cirurgia Anatômica (1715), by Monsieur Le Clere, Âncora Medicinal (1721), by Francisco da Fonseca Henriquez, and O Practicante do Hospital convencido (1756), by Manoel Gomes de Lima, seeking to highlight the meanings of their discourses in the configuration of certain knowledges about the ways of dealing with and treating the ill body, before the reformations that took place in Portugal in the second half of the 18th century.
Keywords:
Medicine; dieting; healing; remedies; XVIII century