On the occasion of three cases of araneismo by "Latrodectus mactans" that was given to study and whose short stories transcribed below.

Order Speech delivered by Dr. Hugo Pesce in the Tribute of the Faculty of Medicine at DANIEL A. CARRION in the centenary of his birth, in Lima on August 8, 1957.

But there tanatofidios in the very capital of the Republic, it is not uncommon arrival at our hospitals subjects bitten by poisonous snakes, from places agrestres Department of Lima. While the overall causal data relates what the patient have a diagnosis of high importance gender causes and knowledge of appropriate therapy.

A year ago, when you promote students' Hugo Pesce "entered the boarding school, established a dialogue, collecting some of the questions and concerns of you, was on the most suitable medical student activity against the cloister against the profession and towards life.

Our professional in southern Peru exercise brought us into contact in 1937 with an outbreak of leprosy Andean hitherto ignored and forced us to the study of leprosy in their clinical, epidemiological and sanitary aspects . A stay of nearly two years in Brazil and Argentina us . consented then receive valuable teaching these leprológicas schools and allowed us in 1944 to assume the responsibility of organizing in our country the National Leprosy . Got the help of a select group of national medical , through the joint efforts of a few decades Peruvian leprolóqico School who was able to assert its valimiento in different fields of specialty was born. Principal Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious , Parasitic and Tropical Diseases , and the Faculty of Medicine of Lima. Medical Officer , Division of Leprosy , Ministry of Public Health. Regular Member of the Panel of Experts Consulting...

Historically the few pockets of leprosy Coast and Sierra, on the one hand, and recent in the Amazon, on the other hand, have operated independently. Only in recent decades the isolation of the three areas has been broken, both by the great increase in explosive outbreaks Amazon, as by the increasing development of roads. An examination of the historical sources and the study of the historical course of the endemic come, therefore, separately for the three regions.

The main sources of knowledge that can be invoked to resolve the existence of leprosy in the pre-Columbian era are, in relation to Peru, the following: - Relics of pre-Columbian civilizations. - Tales of the chroniclers. - Philological studies. - Previous existence of certain diseases of regional type. Also worth bearing in mind similar sources and facts about other countries in America.

Keynote address delivered on September 20, 1956, in the action that the Peruvian Medical Federation featured in his clubhouse in honor of the Faculty of Medicine to commemorate the centenary of its founding.

No object of this conference is one, albeit succinct, comprehensive exposition of the notions of Chagas disease. Only attempt has been made after some preliminary memories and then to highlight the epidemiological findings in the region of Arequipa, illustrate the clinical Chagas disease, especially in its acute phases and with particular reference to the integumentary syndromes; clinic wealth and variety, built by Mazza, which exceeded by far the current notions of ophthalmic-nodal complex and chronic myocarditis, which dominate the general treaties.

Since 1937, qe P. T. WEISS and Peruvian ZAVALETA published the first case of deep mycosis called South American Blastomycosis, this condition has been the subject of study with us having so far referred 20 cases and 10 published under study and reason Thesis (OR), all from our Amazon.