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El abate Molina, la viruela... y también Darwin / The Abbe Molina, the smallpox… and also Darwin
Ledermann-Dehnhardt, Walter.
  • Ledermann-Dehnhardt, Walter; Centro de Estudios Humanistas Julio Prado. CL
Rev. chil. infectol ; 38(2): 254-259, abr. 2021. ilus
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: biblio-1388226
RESUMEN
Resumen Nuestro Abate Molina, nacido en Talca en 1740, debió hacer toda su notable carrera de naturalista en la Universidad de Bolonia, al ser expulsada de Chile la Orden Jesuita en 1767. En su juventud contrajo la viruela en 1761, enfermedad que lo tuvo a las puertas de la muerte, debiendo sufrir tanto por el virus como por los médicos y sus crueles e inútiles tratamientos, que incluyeron sangrías, enemas y "vinagre de los cuatro ladrones", de todo lo cual ha dejado constancia en dos "Elegías Latinas de la Viruela", de las cuales comentamos un puñado de versos de escaso valor literario pero de alto interés histórico. En una de sus últimas publicaciones esbozó algunas ideas evolucionistas, antecediendo en 44 años a la teoría de Darwin, siendo acusado de herejía y sometido a un juicio religioso que puso prácticamente fin a su carrera.
ABSTRACT
Abstract The Chilean Abbe Ignacio Molina (1740-1829) developed a brilliant career as naturalist in the University of Bologna, where he arrived when the Jesuit Order was expelled from the Spanish colonies in 1767, until he was accused of heresy because some ideas about evolution expressed in one of his late works, at the same time with Lamarck and 44 years before Darwin. In his youth Molina was affected in a severe way by smallpox, leaving us in two poems a vivid story of his suffering, not only by the disease itself but also for the useless therapeutic measures, some disagreeable, like enemas; other injurious, as bleeding and topic vinegar of the four thieves. A handful of the more significant verses from the two Latin Elegies "De peste variolarum" and "De peste variolis vulgo dicta" is analyzed its literary value is scarce, its reading is bored, and its real merit only historic.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Smallpox Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Chile Language: Spanish Journal: Rev. chil. infectol Journal subject: Communicable Diseases Year: 2021 Type: Article Affiliation country: Chile Institution/Affiliation country: Centro de Estudios Humanistas Julio Prado/CL

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Smallpox Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Chile Language: Spanish Journal: Rev. chil. infectol Journal subject: Communicable Diseases Year: 2021 Type: Article Affiliation country: Chile Institution/Affiliation country: Centro de Estudios Humanistas Julio Prado/CL