Primary palliative care in southern Brazil: the legacy of Cicely Saunders

As her undergraduate medical studies drew to a close, Cicely Saunders, whose centenary is being celebrated in 2018, was moved to write her first article and to submit it for consideration to the St Thomas’s Hospital Gazette. Published in 1958, it proved to be a remarkably complete statement about the issue of terminal care in Britain at that time, and a manifesto for what might be done in the future.