Clorose ou doenças das virgens? Edição e glossário onomástico da tese médica do Sergipano Antonio Garcia Rosa (1870)

Abstract

The disease Chlorosis was recorded for the first time, in 1554, by the German doctor Johanes Lange, as “disease of virgins”. This disease mainly affected women between the ages of 16 and 24 and its symptoms were manifested by the absence of menstruation, eating disorders and a greenish coloration of the skin, which popularly gave it other terms such as “green disease” and “love fever” (King, 2005). The object of study of this Master's thesis is the medical thesis entitled Chlorose, defended in 1870 by Antonio Garcia Rosa (Japaratuba, 1943-1977) from Sergipe to obtain his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia. This document is one of the first theses written in Brazil on Chlorosis, at a time when publications on the disease grew significantly in Europe, becoming a reference for medical schools around the world (Carrilo, Bernal, Linares, 2010). Our first objective was to prepare, in the rigor of Textual Criticism (Cambraia, 2005; Spina, 1990), a diplomatic edition. From the philological preparation of the text, we based ourselves on the Sociocognitive Theory of Terminology (Temmerman, 2000), which postulates that scientific anthroponyms can be classified as entities, activities and/or umbrellas, and recognizing that these onomastic terms do not derive only from an ontological nature, but also from an encyclopedic perspective. Our second objective was to develop an anthroponymic glossary to categorically describe the set of terms associated with the scientific production of Chlorosis and establish, in an intercategorical manner, the information contained in the informative modules of the terminological units. We opted for a methodological approach that consisted of creating a selective glossary, as proposed by Mateus (1995), supported by socio-historical terminographic sheets (Teixeira, 2021; Teixeira, Marengo, Finatto, 2022; Santos, 2023). To improve our work, we use computational tools, namely AntConc (Anthony, 2014) and TEXTQUIM (Finatto, 2010). The developments, analyzes and final conclusions of our research indicated the need for descriptive procedures aimed at adapting the terms to the cognitive categories outlined by Temmerman (2000).