UDA receives book that changed the history of medicine

The Mexican Academy of Surgery delivered a facsimile of the book De Humanis Corpore Fabrica, published in 1543 in Basel, to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Azuay. The delivery took place in the Auditorium of the Faculty and was attended by the rector of the university, Francisco Salgado.

James Pilco, professor of the Faculty of Medicine, called the students to consult the facsimile because a work of this nature "can not be locked in a library," he said.
José Antonio Carrasco, academic secretary of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, delivered the facsimile and dedicated his speech to the life of Andrea Vesalio, the author of the book and Juan de Palafox, the Spanish bishop of Puebla who managed to get the work across the border. Atlantic.


"Vesalio finished his work before the 27 years and with it changed 1.300 years of medical history. He broke with Galen's medicine and everything he did thinking about others. Palafox created the first public library in Latin America bringing 5.000 books from the Old Continent, "explained Carrasco.


Galo Duque, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, stressed that the faculty is doubly privileged: For receiving the facsimile and for listening to the exhibition by Carrasco. (RET) (I)