[Floriano de Lemos in theCorreio da Manhãnewspaper, 1906-1965]

Raquel Discini de Campos1

  • 1Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, raqueldiscini@uol.com.br.

Historia, Ciencias, Saude--Manguinhos
|December 19, 2013
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