Claudio Costa Casaretto MD: 1914-1999 / Claudio Costa Casaretto MD: 1914-1999

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A Chilean physician and a leading medical historian, Dr. Costa-Casaretto was born in Iquique, Chile, in December 25, 1914. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1940, and became physician at the University of Chile Clinical Hospital in 1952. He made post graduate studies with Dr. Adalberto Pazzini, Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Rome. Returning to Chile in 1955, he founded with Professor Enrique Laval, a Center for Studies on the History of Medicine and edited the ÒAnales Chilenos de Historia de la MedicinaÓ (1959-1972). In 1968 was apppointed Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Chile, Faculty of Medicine. He wrote near one hundred papers about history dealing with the XIX century Chilean medicine, and a book ÒElectroanestesiaÓ (1959) a biography of Dr. Araya, the Chilean inventor of that technology. He died in Santiago, in April 29, 1999, after cerebrovascular and cardiovascular complications