[Pavie: one of the pioneers of modern medicine in Brazil]

Abstract

This is a brief biography and analysis of Pavie's medical work, who at the beginning of our century, practiced medicine in the broad area of Minas Gerais (Brazil). As a consequence of his great professional activity and correspondence with European medical centres, he developed a highly sophisticated practice of medicine for the time, in a poor region far from any brazilian urban centres resources. The success of Pavie's innovative work became one of the first accounts of true modern medical pioneering in Brazil.