@article{ref1,
title="La medicina chilena inmediatamente después de la revolución de 1891",
journal="Revista Medica de Chile",
year="1995",
author="Costa Casaretto, Claudio",
volume="123",
number="3",
pages="384-9",
abstract="The conflict between the Chilean President Balmaceda and the parliament lead him to rule the country despotically during 8 months, until his suicide in 1891. During this lapse he persecuted and imprisioned his opponents, including several Medical School professors. Dr. David Benavente, professor of Anatomy and Balmaceda's oponent, wrote a chronicle at the Revista Médica de Chile (1897; 20:46) referring to the changes that occured at the Medical School: Flogged by dictatorship's winds, it barely gave sings of life during the 8 months that Balmaceda dominated the country. Political passion almost annihilated for ever the first scientific teaching center of the University of Chile, posed a project at the Public Instruction Council &quot;to create in all high schools a special class about the general principles of the Constitution&quot;. Once democratic normality was re-established, the development of Chilean Medicine was greatly impelled, sending young physicians to specialize at qualified european centers<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0034-9887",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}