A política de difusão do germanismo por intermédio dos periódicos da Bayer: a Revista Terapêutica e O Farmacêutico Brasileiro

The article analyzes two periodicals published by the chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer – as they played into scientific relations between Brazil and Germany. At the close of World War I, a number of countries, including Brazil, broke off political, economic, and scientific relations with Germany. Germany’s medical and scientific community moved to implement a policy of disseminating Germanism through science and medicine, aimed above all at Latin America. Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industry was impacted by this policy, as it both supported and was a beneficiary of the endeavor to disseminate German science and to promote international scientific exchange, which opened new markets. In Brazil, these efforts were backed by physician Renato Kehl.