La medicina chilena inmediatamente después de la revolución de 1891 / Chilean medicine inmediately after the 1891 revolution

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