La medicina chilena inmediatamente después de la revolución de 1891 / Chilean medicine inmediately after the 1891 revolution
Rev. méd. Chile
;
123(3): 384-9, mar. 1995.
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS, MINSALCHILE
| ID: lil-151199
RESUMO
The conflict between the Chilean President Balmaceda and the parliament lead him to rule the country despotically during 8 months, until his suicide in 1891. During this lapse he persecuted and imprisioned his opponents, including several Medical School professors. Dr. David Benavente, professor of Anatomy and Balmaceda's oponent, wrote a chronicle at the Revista Médica de Chile (1897; 2046) referring to the changes that occured at the Medical School Flogged by dictatorship's winds, it barely gave sings of life during the 8 months that Balmaceda dominated the country. Political passion almost annihilated for ever the first scientific teaching center of the University of Chile, posed a project at the Public Instruction Council "to create in all high schools a special class about the general principles of the Constitution". Once democratic normality was re-established, the development of Chilean Medicine was greatly impelled, sending young physicians to specialize at qualified european centers
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Schools, Medical
/
Universities
/
History, 19th Century
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
/
Chile
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. méd. Chile
Year:
1995
Type:
Article
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