Nominación póstuma de premios Nobel de medicina II: época del positivismo, 1849-1899 / Posthumous nomination for medicine Nobel prizes II: the positivism era, 1849-1899

RESUMO

The author proposes the nomination of great psysicians of the second half of the XIX century for a posthumous Medicine Noel Prize. The valorization given by medical historians Garrison, Lavastine, Castiglioni, Lain Entralgo and Guerra, is used to select the better candidats. One to three names are assigned by year from 1849 to 1899. Four categories of Nobel prices are assigned a) Basic biological disciplines, b) Clinical and surgical medicine, c) Discoverers of transcendental diseases that are eponyms and d) New medical technologies. A total of 84 nominees for the Nobel Prize are presented. These lists are presented as preliminary and tentative to allow an extensive debate about the history of medicine during the nineteenth century