Memorial of Epidemics

Abstract

About the Spanish Flu, I transcribe excerpts from the description of our greatest memoirist, Pedro Nava (1903-1984), a rheumatologist, one of the forerunners of the specialty in Brazil, having also been president of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology and of the Panamerican League of Rheumatology Associations – the PANLAR. In the book Chão de Ferro, published in 1976, Nava describes with mastery and rare erudition personal memories of the pandemic that arrived in Brazil in 1918.

Keywords

• pandemic
• spanish flu
• epidemics
• covid19