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[[vertical annotation in red in left margin]] Instituto Oswaldo Cruz [[red underline]] Rio [[/red underline]] [[/left margin]]
I noted with pleasure the reverence with which the old study room of [[red underline]] Dr. Oswald Cruz is held. [[/red underline]] Everything has been left as it was found on the day of his death. 
[[red underline]] Crowell [[/red underline]] tells me that people here in Brazil talk about [[red underline]] their syphilis [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] "Wasserman reaction" [[/red underline]] in their family as we speak about influenza, and consider it a [[red underline]] family subject of conversation, [[/red underline]] one member of the family [[strikethrough]] referring to [[/strikethrough]] comparing the progress of his symptoms with his brother or sister. [[2 red !! in left margin]] I can hardly believe it. He also says that [[red underline]] the sexual activity [[/red underline]] of boys is considered to start at the [[red underline]] age of 12. [[/red underline]] and that the father induces or allows him to sleep with one of the [[red underline]] servant girls [[/red underline]]
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or whatever other woman who may be handy. and that they make fun of our American "puritanical" ideas etc.
Spent afternoon in [[red underline]] Bibliotheca nacional. [[/red underline]] Service is very good. Took only [[red underline]] 4 minutes [[/red underline]] after I had filled my blank to obtain the book I desired. Remained there all afternoon reading: [[?Denis-Breul]] au XX siècle.
April 24. Went to [[red underline]] Dr. Lees's [[/red underline]] laboratory at 12M and waited there until past 1P.M. [[red underline]] Another one who is careless about his appointments [[/red underline]] Evening [[strikethrough]] went [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Captain Hill [[/red underline]] and Mrs. Hill motored me to [[red underline]] American Country Club beyond Copacabana [[/red underline]] where I was invited for supper both by Hill and by [[red underline]] Dr. Morrison. [[/red underline]] who both had a number of guests on each table. Jovial pleasant, gathering and