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Commentary: The lucid reasoning of Carlos Chagas
National Academy of Medicine, Bogota, Colombia.
E-mail: amoncayo@uniandes.edu.co
Accepted 6 May 2008
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When Carlos Chagas was requested by Oswaldo Cruz in 1907 to investigate and control an outbreak of malaria in Lassance, Minas Gerais, he could not have imagined that this field of research was the beginning of one of the most notable examples of medical discoveries.
In fact, when reading his scientific reports1,2 written in a clear and elegant style, the reader perceives that the observations and precise conclusions are the fruit of a lucid reasoning.
At the age of 28, Chagas was a young doctor working as an assistant researcher at the Instituto Soroterápico de Manguinhos, founded by the Baron de Pedro Afonso in 1900 and directed
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