Jorge Mardones: oration at this funeral service

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Oration at the funeral service of Prof Jorge Mardones, M.D. A very successful and influential pharmacologist, he was Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile; President of the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chile; National Prize of Sciences, 1977; and Minister of Public Health. He also served as Chief Editor of "Archivos de Biología y Medicina Experimentales" (former name of this journal) between 1964 and 1978.