The article presents a panorama of documental sources and of the most representative archives, libraries, and documentation centers pertinent to the history of health sciences in Brazil (1808-1930). Historians, especially those investigating the biomedical sciences, will find here a broad and diversified set of sources. It is precisely from such a convergence of different witnesses that historical investigation is viable.
history of sciences; Brazil; history of health sciences-Brazil; history of ealth sciences-sources