This article explains the struggle between the Charity Society of Lima led by small elite against the Faculty of Medicine of San Fernando, Lima, represented by a body of doctors. The Faculty of Medicine of San Fernando, was trying to organize and lead a hygienist policy to develop in Lima, while trying to take control of the hospitals, thus to implement the scientific advances that were being developed in countries of the old-world. Also doctors believing themselves as the new “enlightened” of the republic, express their points of views on various issues of daily life as well as on policy. On the other hand, the Charity Society of Lima, in charge of directing and ensure the care of hospitals, saying they were able to organize and manage hospital aid, for which they even brought The Sisters of Charity, from Chile to be in charge of the pharmacies of hospitals in Lima . Facing this dic...

In this text, prior to the construction of the old Mercado de La Concepción history is analyzed, current today Lima Central Market “Ramón Castilla”. Using newspapers of the time, we can tell as the daily life of the first Lima market, who lived and who their characters, as the day wore on, that was offered and how it was developed everyday. An important fact is the Chinese settler, who settled near the market place in which to develop their daily lives and offered their products, not knowing that on that place, will be located in Chinatown today.

The following research work uses unpublished and edit sources to show the ideological struggle in Lima during the second half of the nineteenth century between the recently created Faculty of Medicine of Lima (San Fernando) for leading and organizing a struggle to sanitize up the hospitals and the city against the charitable entity of the Society of Public Charity of Lima, an institution that watched over the food, education and health of the sick and dispossessed, but that was protected in Christian charity and did not present any scientific contribution, only welfare represented by a community of affluent and wealthy people who give their goods for the maintenance of the needy classes. This ideological struggle will be supported, also, by the arrival of the Sisters of Charity, in Peru, who will be invited by the Charity Society to be in charge of hospitals and provide moral and spiritu...

The following research work uses unpublished and edit sources to show the ideological struggle in Lima during the second half of the nineteenth century between the recently created Faculty of Medicine of Lima (San Fernando) for leading and organizing a struggle to sanitize up the hospitals and the city against the charitable entity of the Society of Public Charity of Lima, an institution that watched over the food, education and health of the sick and dispossessed, but that was protected in Christian charity and did not present any scientific contribution, only welfare represented by a community of affluent and wealthy people who give their goods for the maintenance of the needy classes. This ideological struggle will be supported, also, by the arrival of the Sisters of Charity, in Peru, who will be invited by the Charity Society to be in charge of hospitals and provide moral and spiritu...

El siguiente artículo presenta un resumen de las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas al interior del antiguo claustro del noviciado, el mismo que fuera parte original del convento de Santo Domingo de Lima. En la actualidad, este claustro es conocido como la «Casa de la Columna» y se ubica en el actual jirón Conde de Superunda, cuadra dos. Estas excavaciones formaron parte de un proyecto multidisciplinario, el cual tenía como objetivos la restauración del claustro, así como la portada interior; en otros casos, se consolidarían otras estructuras originales que igualmente eran parte del antiguo Claustro del Noviciado (nos referimos a la arquería misma del claustro). En la actualidad, la Casa de la Columna es una gran casa de vecindad que, en el Perú, se denomina «callejón», en la cual moran más de 200 habitantes, los cuales han tugurizado por completo el antiguo reci...