La práctica médica de Juan Luis Chavert y los debates en torno a la fiebre amarilla a través de los impresos mexicanos, 1824-1833

Abstract

Juan Luis Chavert was a French doctor who settled in Mexico in the first half of the 19th century. Between 1824 and 1833, he published the results of his research on yellow fever. The objective of the article is to examine the production of scientific knowledge of Chavert through the books and writings of the Mexican press of his authorship in the framework of public debates on the disease. The methodology takes up the social history of science to analyze Chavert's scientific practice in terms of the problematization of yellow fever from the Mexican cases as part of the local production of knowledge and with global implications through print. The results of the article indicate that Chavert approached yellow fever from the miasmatic theory, for which he analyzed the environmental conditions of the port of Veracruz, developed several hospital observations, made known different therapeutic prescriptions for the sick, and reported the experiments he carried out. out with the huaco to fight yellow fever.