We study in this work, symptoms and syndromes caused by Peruvian Wart (Carrion's Disease) in the brain and its coverings. The clinical picture is varied, presenting symptoms and defined isolated syndromes. Among the former are noted: Fear, disorders of muscle tone, sansitivos, sensory, reflex and mental. Among brain syndromes, the forms: hypertensive, convulsive, pyramidal, extrapyramidal, meningeal, psychic, encephalitic, mixed, asymptomatic lesions of some cranial nerves. Furthermore, core and peripheral locations. Among the brain forms, the most common are the meningo-encephalic and seizure. The pathology has been clarified by Encinas, Mackehenie and Weiss. No injury to endothelium, occlusive thrombosis, tromnboageitis obliterans, gliotic presence of nodules throughout comparable to those observed in the skin. Any vascular area of the brain may be affected, giving as a result the most...

Cancer as rheumatism or tuberculosis. are as old as humanity. In the first two tracks are in antediluvian animals, proving that predate the appearance of man on earth. Thus a tumor in the vertebrae of Apatosaurus and a deforming spondylitis in the vertebrae of a esmilodón, corresponding to the Pleistocene of California is discovered. In Peru, apart from two case studies on this disease, the eighteenth century, Paul Petit, the other nineteenth century, José Manuel Valdés, have not done a historiographical study of this disease, to determine their age and mortality it causes. Precise will resort to heuristic to find traces of their passage through the ages

The name of Ricardo Espinal, distinguished Venezuelan doctor, takes place of prominence in the history of the wart, because eb became clear the intricate set of symptoms of the disease, sitting for the first time and with masterly judgment, the etiologic eruptive unit wart and severe La Oroya fever.

The trephined skulls of ancient Peru, with polychrome Paracas cloths, beautiful Moche ceramics, the mummies carefully enfardeladas and artistic ceremonial vessels of silver and gold, are the pride of the domestic and foreign museums. They are the best representatives of our country, dumb and conspicuous ambassadors testify missing high cultures.

We have referred above, the vast sociological phenomenon called acculturation that occurred at the Conquest of the Inca Empire by the Spanish made. Both cultures loans were made, resulting in a fruitful exchange

The civilized world commemorated in 1957, the third anniversary of the death of William Harvey, English illustrious genius like Linacre, Sydenham, Oster, Lister, Fleming and many others defined road map drawn to science, and inaugurated new exploration methods which has benefited mankind.

The bicentenary of Hipílito Unanue (13 August 1755 - 15 July 1833) is an epochal date for medicine and for Peruvians in general. In August this year, has been declared "Unánue Month" and many voices have been heard, prosecuting multiforme life and work of the wise.

Make Unanue exegesis is no easy task. Because it is not possible to measure it by the yardstick that is used for the common man, as he belongs to the category par excellence of enlightened minds, leaders of men.

Aboriginal surgery had preserved its rich tradition in the early viceroyalty. The Sirkak and Tullu-camayoc, were skilled in managing bone fractures and trying to open holes in the skull. They happened to them the Spanish sixteenth century surgeon, who had learned in Salamanca, Cordoba, Valencia and Alcalá de Henares.

Every day, the national heuristic, scattered in archives, libraries and individuals, providing new light on the activities of our proto doctors. This we publish now and has the date 1840, when Heredia planned reorganization of medical studies indicates Heredia efforts to secure income to support the decadent School of Independence. Needed to shore up their "short rents" and poach others to give the range that would be, of higher education. College entries were considerably reduced by the little attention he had borrowed from the government, as he was careful to maintain public order, disrupted by various revolutions, and that income was not sufficient to meet the expenses of urgency. So suggest a package to the government, that the branch of Census and temporalities, whose products were intended for public instruction, a party to the College in order to cover part of the 3,300 pesos to b...

Miguel Tafur and Zea as Paredes was born in Lima on September 29, 1766, eleven years after Unanue and 8 Dávalos. They were successful in running the country Viceroy Don Manuel de Amat y Junient (1761-1776), who cared anything for higher education and to expel the Jesuits played (27 February 1767), transcendent event in the years peaceful colonial life.

A Centenary of institutional life as celebrating the Faculty of Medicine of Lima, is a transcendent anniversary forcing meditate on the technical and ethical content of our profession. It is a period too dense, because he realized and perfected the rapid advances in technique have been made, from the knowledge-based naturalist positivism of the late nineteenth century to the present time it has built a vast anthropological medicine, insistently demanding comprehensive study of man.

In the late eighteenth century in our country, and it shows a concern for the technical study of medicine. By the year 1792, founded by Unanue Anatomical Amphitheatre San Andrés temple where it was to teach the morphology, the science of Luzzi and Vesalio. The following year, Unanue begins a cycle of clinical conferences, in which they took part Valdés, Villalobos, Cosme Bueno, Vergara y Puente. For the first time, following the educational trends of leydediana and Viennese School, is at stake this academic attempt, as a way to interest young people in the Hippocratic studies. This natural and scientific currents coming illustration, prepares the creation of the School of Medicine.

Edward Jenner (1749-1823), was a great English whom humanity owes the portentous discovery of anti-smallpox vaccine. The world celebrated the year 1949, the bicentennial of his birth while in his person paid tribute to England in the field of History of Medicine.

Epilepsy is as old as mankind. Its history begins with the appearance of man on earth, when he suffered trauma and emotions in your body and in your soul; when the skull, brain case nonexistent, was confused and sometime later appeared framáticas seizures in members.

Good time is it, time to review, to review and analyze the Peruvian native medicine. The wave of unrest and anxiety waving the Orb; is no obstacle to calmly contemplate the past. History has always been a source of lessons; hence the usefulness of the aboriginal medicine penetrate and interrogate all remnants of ancient civilizations.

The communication from some flashes of that medicine that took figures such as Ramon Lull and the nascent Servetus was slow and progressive Cologne. You could say that seize both Spanish and indigenous, of incipient progress of each culture; but no such each medicine, its practice often primitive, marched disunited and the Indian element is typecast in their negativity, unable sufficiently benefit the few Spanish doctors arsenal of indigenous plantras, many of them highly recommended medical properties .

Buena hora es esta, hora de crítica, en que debemos revisar y analizar la medicina aborigen peruana. La ola de inquietud y de zozobra que agita al Orbe, no es óbice para que contemplemos serenamente el pasado. Siempre la historia ha sido y es motivo de enseñanza, y el entusiasmo acrece en este sentido, cuando penetramos en la medicina aborigen e interrogamos los restos de las antiguas civilizaciones.

Informa sobre la política del gobierno, de mejorar y aumentar las viviendas para así robustecer la salud del pueblo, construyendo sucesivamente Grandes Unidades Vecinales y explica en qué consiste la labor de higiene mental que se plantea realizar en esta población, cuáles son sus alcances y cuál es la forma de llevarla a la práctica. La Corporación Nacional de la Vivienda y el Fondo Nacional de Salud y Bienestar Social, son los organismos que construían en esos momentos, además de la Gran Unidad Vecinal Matute con capacidad para 6,000 pe1sonas (cuando esté terminada), el Centro Climático de Esparcimiento en Huampaní (Chaclacayo), donde se podría disfrutar de los beneficios del clima y el reposo, después de las labores cumplidas, previniendo así la fatiga y el agotamiento, que suceden después de trabajos prolongados. Señala que una Gran Unidad Vecinal, con una colectivi...

El Museo Nacional, dirigido por Luis E. Valcárcel desde 1931, publicó la Revista del Museo Nacional a partir del año 1932. El presente volumen N° XVIII, fue publicado en 1949. Contenido: “Bibliográficas” – “Congresos y Conferencias” – “Colección de textos quechuas del Perú Central ( Continuación ), por Farfán, José M. B. – “Hacia una concepción psico-antropológica de la medicina arcaica peruana”, por Lastres, Juan B.—“Danza Kkechuwa de los Kkanchis”, por Lira, Jorge A. – “Notas” – “Supervivencias precolombinas en el Perú actual”, por Valcárcel, Luis E. – “Santo Domingo de Sicaya”, por Vasquez, Emilio -- “Estudios sobre los lamistas”, por Weiss, Pedro.