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La Medicina del Lavoro: A new policy

La Medicina del Lavoro: A new policy Get access G. G. Mathew G. G. Mathew Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1961, Page 69, https://doi.org/10.1093/annhyg/3.1.69 Published: 01 January 1961

A Survey of the Historiography of Guatemala Since 1821: Part II: The Twentieth Century

Although it has not attempted such large undertakings as general histories of Central America, the twentieth century has been more productive than the previous one and has also surpassed it in quality. It opens with the Historia de la Medicina en Guatemala by Francisco Asturias (1902), based on documents existing in the Archives of the Faculty of Medicine.

Institute of Tropical Medicine at Havana

THE August issue of the Boletin de la Medicina Sanitaria Panamericana contains an account of the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the University of Havana. It was created on December 8, 1937, under the direction of Dr. Pedro Kouri, who is professor of parasitology and tropical diseases at the University. Its function is threefold: teaching, research and treatment. The courses of instruction are attended by students and post-graduates, many of whom are foreigners. Most of the research is devoted to studies of hookworm, echinococcus, bothriocephalus, ascaris, strongyloides, fasciola, amoeba and a new intestinal parasite first described in 1935, Inermucapsifer cubensis Kouri. The institute contains a Finlay Museum, which has a collection of anatomical specimens, parasites and other teaching material on permanent exhibition, laboratories, a department for drawing, photography, microphotography and microcinematography, and a free dispensary. In co-operation with other agencies, the institute carries on a campaign of popular education and prophylaxis against intestinal parasites. The official organ of the Institute is the Revista de Medicina Tropical.

Trachoma in the Argentine

ACCORDING to the April issue of the Boletin de la Medicina Sanitaria Panamericana, the provinces of Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fé, Entre Rios, Corrientes, Salta, Jujuy and Misiones form the area most seriously affected by trachoma in the Argentine. The school is the centre for the control of the disease in children ; specially trained doctors examine the children before school begins, and those found infective are given treatment in dispensaries and are not admitted to school until their eyes are normal. Meanwhile, the patients are visited by public health nurses, who instruct the family in treatment and prevention. Periodic visits to schools and dispensaries are made by medical inspectors of the National Department of Health, and teachers serve as intermediaries between the medical practitioner and the children. Intensive educational work is carried out by posters, leaflets and lectures, and preventive medicines are distributed. The result of this campaign during the last few years has been a reduction of the percentage of children infected with trachoma.

MADRID

<h3>Medical Week</h3> <i>La Medicina Ibera</i>organized the first medical week held in Madrid. It proved a success. Lectures and demonstrations were given as usual and there was no lack of banquets, receptions and the never absent excursions to Toledo and El Escorial. In the inaugural sessions, all the foreign delegates spoke in their mother tongue, with the exception of the American delegate, Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, who chose Spanish as his medium of expression, as a tribute to his ancestors. He was also the one to receive most applause on recalling that the Charité Hospital founded by the Spaniard Don Andrés Almenáster still stands at New Orleans. Beckers of Brussels spoke on the topic "Gynecology Must be Above All a Medical Science." He advised Besredka's local vaccine therapy in metritis, and local and general vaccines treatment in salpingitis. Autogenous vaccines seem to him of little use. In rebellious