| Summary: | Founded in 1924 by Emilio de Magalhães,Gil da Costa and Veiga Pires, the Portuguese League of Social Prophylaxis (‘Liga Portuguesa de Profilaxia Social’) initiated numerous campaigns against the social scourges of the time,such as syphilis,tuberculosis,tetanus,leprosy,alcoholism and prostitution.Dedicated to the prevention of diseases and social problems, and under the motto «For the sake of the common good», the LPPS developed intense propaganda through conferences and medical and social actions that are embodied in a vast literature produced to educate the population and alert the public and philanthropists to the importance of their action. The conference papers and other publications are therefore a corpus of documents which can be explored through analytical procedures.Based on a content analysis methodology,this study aims to analyze the production of LPPS documents, edited and unedited, between 1924 and 1960, through procedures such as encryption, classification and categorization.We are thus able to obtain an overview of the most pressing and widely-discussed issues during the institution’s most intense period of activity, on the educational, social and hygienic problems of the «Invicta». This article aims to analyze the LPPS’s documents in the period considered, so as to highlight the concerns of the Portuguese League of Social Prophylaxis, as well as the contribution of medical personalities and policies to this institution’s unique work in difficult times of national life.
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