Among the pleasant memories of my initiation into learning medicine excels, back in 1912, the study of histology. Made with objective criteria, all students did tissue preparations that were reviewed and scored by the professor of the course Dr. Daniel Eduardo Lavorería whose theoretical lessons exelentes captivated our interest for their precision and elegance.

Text of the Conference supported by the University of San Agustin, Arequipa, on August 2, 1954.

Lecture at the Aula Magna of the University of San Agustin, Arequipa.

Maximum is highest privilege and responsibility of the medical profession to serve the ailing man according to their complexity of a biological, social and spiritual. To accomplish this task it is necessary to cultivate diverse and difficult scientific disciplines and to apply to art, to the time you put into play the resources of exquisite treatment and psychological insight. It does to the extent that their vocation is authentic, competence is based on actual knowledge and is illuminated by a higher conception of human nature. Hence since Hippocrates, writing in his famous Law, understand medicine, if exercised with love, as a sacred thing, it should only be to impart sacred persons, that is, worthy of respect and veneration.

Undoubtedly one of the characteristics of current psychiatry is a tendency to extend its scope in all directions. So no wonder that philosophical ideas are incorporated into the study of mental disorders in the prosecution of the biography of the patient, discussion of problems relating to the interaction of the organic functions with the psychic in psychotherapeutic work and in the examination of the psychiatric knowledge.

The medicine was originally essentially soul by its aim and the means employed. Indeed, both the man and pre-medical practitioner, there is the beginning of all cultures regard to physician-priest of the pre-Hippocratic Greek civilization, the disease is evil soul and its treatment appeals to intangible powers : of brujesca way among savages, cultural and moral way of temples dedicated to Apollo, god Serapis and, above all, Esculapius.

From Hippocrates conviction that heredity influences the genesis of mental illness claims. But only in this century accurate in the underlying investigation, thanks to the rediscovery (by De Vries, Correns and Tchermak almost simultaneously in 1900) of the work of the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel (the first and fundamental statement of direction is defined experiences made ​​by him hybridization in plants was published in 1865). The facts revealed by this biologist, forgotten by the generation that followed, mean initiation stage of the scientific study of heredity.

The teaching of general pathology is a matter that is in real crisis, because although its utility and meaning are universal consensus, the nature and limits of its contents, as well as its technical and its location in the curriculum are subject of endless discussion.

The statistics resulting from the array and accurate facts, offer the study of the elements involved in the complicated process of psychiatric phenomena. solid handle for searching the interlocking who binds their determinants. The application of this approach to mental medicine is not, moreover, but a partial manifestation of his value as a tool for assessing the reality within the scientific canons. So we believe necessary and appropriate to outline some comments on the figures supplied us compare the figures contained in the 1896 and 1916 statistics, to derive numerical variants alienated held at the Hospice of Insanos Lima, take their etiology as current conditions - that the etiologic in other periods of our history factors have been brilliantly treated by our master the Dr.HERMILIO VALDIZAN - etiology take on current conditions and outline the most appropriate prophylactic attitude...

Figure pilgrim is exceedingly eminent physician whose tormented life fruitful and treatment evoke here, four years after its completion

They can be considered modern curative procedures of schizophrenia: the pyrotherapy, prolonged narcosis, convulsive seizures induced with Cardiazol, the hypoglycemic state raised insulin, psychotherapy and surgical intervention in the brain. Not develop here regarding the first and last.

Dementia praecox or schizophrenia, psychosis common in youth and fundamentally conditioned by heredity age has an external cause appear without evident and manifest a special set of organic and mental symptoms. Among the latter are some characteristic. Hence the interest of psychopathological study of this psychosis. The most important psychopathological manifestations of schizophrenia are the following: 1 In the field of perceptual activity: the impression of strangeness of the world, pseudopercepciones body sensitivity or verbal hallucinations and pseudo-hallucinations verbomotrices, especially the thought that makes noise, the echo of thinking, dialogical voices and commentary of the action itself. In general, pseudopercepciones genuinely schizophrenic experiences are distinguished by being the subject lives without assimilating into their autonomous existence. Regarding 2nd thought: ...

An unfortunate and lamentable exclusiveness had prevented take citizenship card psychiatry as a science of the last century. On one hand, in the case of neurosis, which remained more or less recognized as products of psychological activity, why is not sought, coherence, causality, in its own sphere, as is done in science with all manner of phenomena but they were considered as failures of any psychological meaning. The problem was resolved in the negative, or rather, it was assumed nonexistent. The symptoms of hysteria were not at that time pre scientific than the result of an incongruous imagination. Furthermore, with regard to psychosis, awoke the enthusiasm method exploits pathology, especially with the discovery of certain brain locations was due, without further examination, somatógena conception as the only way to be accepted into the study of psychosis. The weather has been commi...

Psychoanalysis (continued)

Psychoanalysis (continued)

The study of mental disorders and care for those who suffer in our country do not have development corresponding to their importance. There have been, however, laudable efforts and significant achievements, noteworthy for its very rarity. Everything done is located in Lima. So try to psychiatry in Lima is trying to psychiatry in Peru. It should, however, separate and compare the contribution of Capital regarding psychiatric subject, the patient. Accordingly, in this Article, will be the subject of our review, with due brevity: I, the history of our assistance alienated; II, the culture of psychiatry in Peru; III, the population of sick mind from Lima and the rest of the country; IV, mental health in Peru; and V, the situation and the problems that this offers for assistance, and prophylaxis study of psychic disturbances.

Al cumplirse 50 años del fallecimiento del Prof. Hermilio Valdizán, ACTA MÉDICA PERUANA rinde atributo a la memoria de tan ilustre hombre, médico, científico y humanista cuya fructífera e intensa actividad profesional y académica, contribuyó al avance de la medicina de su época.   

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Desde marzo de 1937 practicamos el metodo terapeutico de la esquizofrenia concebido por  Ladislao Von Meduna y que muchos denominan tambien encefalitis epidemica o letargica.

No cuenta con resumen.