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Revista Ciencias de la Salud
versão impressa ISSN 1692-7273versão On-line ISSN 2145-4507
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PALACIOS SANCHEZ, Leonardo. Some Topics in Relation to José Celestino Mutis and Medicine. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.2, pp.99-106. ISSN 1692-7273.
José Celestino Mutis showed different interest areas of study and worked in multiple knowledge fields: mathematics, mineralogy, astronomy, zoology and botanic, the one in which is best known. However, he was a medical doctor, whit profound an up to date knowledge. He studied at Sevilla University, and in the Royal College of Cadiz. He arrived to the Nuevo Reino de Granada as personal medical doctor of the the viceroy Pedro Messía de la Cerda and during 47 years, period of time he lived there, he always exercised his profession. We showed a special interest in the study of cinchona and the only work he published was El Arcano de la quina. He advised in public health many viceroys and he contributed in different fields but particularly in the prevention of smallpox by inoculation. He played a decisive role in the reopening of the medical school of the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Some of his achievements justifies the appellative Father of the Medicine in Colombia.
Palavras-chave : cinchona; public health; reopening of the medical school; Father of the Medicine.