HYGIENE IN MEDICAL LEXICOGRAPHY FOR PEOPLE IN 19TH CENTURY IN SPAIN

Abstract

The interest for the sanitary situation in the population shown in some of the medical members through the 19th century, will imply, in the second half that the hygiene is consolidated as a discipline, with important effects on the social environment. The agreement of the different members of the society was necessary for this to be possible, and for that, it was also necessary the popularization among them of different indications and behaviors. At the same time as the development of higienism, the medical lexicography occurred and that brought out series of medical dictionaries for people. Due to this function, it seems ideal to register the importance of higienism. Actually, in this work, we have tried to track the different steps that were left on them the flowering of higienism, noting the importance that Personal Hygiene had in all that period, only shared with the Public Health in the last decades of the Century.