Abstract
The medical schools in the Empire played an important role in the process of institutionalization of medicine. The training of the doctors involved a series of procedures, among them the making of end-of-course theses. Throughout this article, it is tried to discussthe writing of the medical theses from a delimited documentary corpus, coming from the theses bank of the Arquivo Público Mineiro (APM). The objective is to try to understand the meaning they had in the process of institutionalization of medicine and how, in the scope of writing, students addressed the main theories and controversies that marked academic medicine in the nineteenth century.
Keywords:
Medial theses; medicine; institutionalization