La increíble empresa de Sarmiento de Gamboa y su triste fin: posibles causas de la tragedia en el Estrecho de Magallanes en el siglo XVI / The possible causes of the tragedy of Port Famine in the Strait of Magellan
Rev. méd. Chile
; 138(11): 1456-1460, nov. 2010.
Artigo
em Espanhol
| HISA - História da Saúde
| ID: his-22151
Biblioteca responsável:
CL27.1
Localização: CL27.1 Biblioteca de Salud Dr. Bogoslav Juricic Turina
RESUMEN
The attempts to colonize the Strait of Magellan soon followed the discovery of this route. PeDro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a Spanish sailor, established human settlements to fortify those lands and control the transit of vessels, especially those of English corsairs, which devastated Chilean and Peruvian coasts. During the summer of 1584, approximately 500 soldiers, artisans, priests, women and children established two villages called ôNombre de Jesúsõ and ôRey Don Felipeõ. From the beginning, these settlers had leadership and communication problems and difficulties to obtain food. After three winters only 17 to 18 people survived according to the testimony of one of the survivors, that was rescued by an English sailor named Cavendish, which renamed the village ôRey Don Felipeõ as ôPort Famineõ. When he observed the scenes of abandonment and death, he supposed that the settlers died due to lack of food. Other factors that facilitated the desolation were hypothermia, execution, anthropophagy and lesions caused by natives. There is also a possibility that intoxication by red tide (harmful algal bloom) could explain in part the finding of unburied corpses in the strait beaches.(AU)
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Contexto em Saúde:
ODS3 - Saúde e Bem-Estar
Problema de saúde:
Meta 3.2: Reduzir as mortes de recém nascidos e crianças com menos de 5 anos
Base de dados:
HISA - História da Saúde
Assunto principal:
Sobreviventes
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Colonialismo
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Expedições
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História da Medicina
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de etiologia
Limite:
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
América do Sul
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Chile
Idioma:
Espanhol
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Ano de publicação:
2010
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Artigo