Gómez GA

Language: Spanish
References: 4
Page: 519-522
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ABSTRACT

The present manuscript aims to record some general aspects of science, and in particular from the beginning of anatomic studies, during the discovery of America. We mention by Vesalio, who was the best known anatomist of his time in the Western world.
In addition this establishes the legal origins of the medical profession in Spain and America, with emphasis on distinct treatments, for example, those in Peru and Chile. This manuscript contains anecdotes and accounts of the time, the use of medicines of the day, and the relationship these had with the native medicine.
Finally, medical department of Chile is described, together with a mention of the first hospitals of the Republic of Chile.

REFERENCES

1. Médicos de Antaño. Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna. Editorial Francisco de Aguirre.

2. Cosas de la Colonia. José Toribio Medina. Apuntes para la crónica del siglo XVIII. Fondo Histórico y Bibliográfico. José Toribio Medina, 1952.

3. Descubrimiento conquista y aborígenes chilenos. Diego BarroArana. Historia Jeneral de Chile. Primera parte. “Los Indígenas”.

4. Historia de la medicina Peruana. Juan B. Lastres. Volumen 1 y II. Imprenta Santa Maria, 1951. Publicación del Cuarto Centenario. U. Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.