This work presents the well known popular medical handbooks wrote by the polish doctor Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz (1812-1881) in the imperial Brazil medical context. These handbooks were elements of the academical medical science disclosure and elements of popular (lay) medicine as well. Their academic, pedagogical, civilizer and hygienist role gave to the rural people, faraway from the regular doctors, the understandig of emergence therapies and the formulation of may kinds of medicines.
Chenoviz; popular medicine; Brazil-Empire; medical handbooks