Abstract

CASTRO, Cesar Augusto  and  CASTELLANOS, Samuel Luis Velazquez. Diseases and control of bodily desires of boys kept in educational institutions of Maranhão, Brazil in the eighteen hundreds (nineteenth century). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.1, pp.222-241. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v15n1-2016-8.

Study on the medical and health aspects and on the sexual behavior of students of the School for Sailors, Cutim Agricultural School and Craftsmen Student House. Asylums installed in Maranhao in nineteenth-century period and were meant to serve the poor and underprivileged children. As a source of analysis, it was used to document research with reference to the reports of doctors Silva Maia and César Augusto Marques. The reports informed about the diseases affecting the students treated in the wards created inside these establishments, in the Santa Casa da Misericordia Hospital or the Military Hospital. Besides these sources, turned up the correspondences of the directors of these institutions, where it was possible to identify aspects that highlight the causes of diseases and the sexual behavior of young people. From this study, we identified the major diseases affecting students; control rules; punishment; and permissions given to these young boys to lie with people of the same sex or the opposite sex, and ways to control and treat diseases.

Keywords : Nineteenth-Century Period; Maranhão; Asylums; Diseases; Sexual Behavior.

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