Cervera-Andrade A

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ABSTRACT

From the oldest historical sources we know that Mayans knew of and used many herbs to cure diseases, to close wounds and to cure snake bites. Some of these practices continue to this day. The first doctors to come to Yucatan were Maese Iñigo López, surgeon, who arrived with Montejo's first expedition; Juan del Rey, herbolist, doctor and surgeon who had previously been in Guatemala. During the colonisation, the most notable figures were Fray Gaspar de Molina, Fray Gabriel de San Buenaventura and Fray Andrés de Avendaño. In the 18th century there were four distinguished doctors, Juan Pereyra from Portugal, Juan Francisco Mayoli, an Italian who practiced in Valladolid and to whom the Book of the Jew is attributed, Lucas Teniere (French) and Claudio Grandel (French), in Campeche in 1720. At the end of the eighteenth century Fray Antonio de Vecaría, a franciscan monk and Francisco León de Gatera came to Mérida and Carlos Escoffié and Grevy (French) and Benjamen Bothe (English) came to Campeche. At the beginning og the 19th century Dr. Alejo Dancourt came from Europe in 1802, doctor Juan Antonio Frutos (Spanish), Dr. Claro José Beraza (Spanish) and Monsiour Renon, a French doctor arrivied in Campeche. During the era of the independence, Don Eusebio Vellamil a catolic priest, Don Sebastian Sotomayor, spaniard, Don Manuel S. Howard, american, Don Joaquín Muñoz y Ramírez from Queretaro, Don José Matilde Sansores and a midwife who became very famous, Doña Nicolasa Treviño, were all the doctors who stoud out.
In 1846, Don José María Tappam from the University of Merida arrived in Merida and was professor of the School of Medicine during many years, he has been given vredit for having carried out several amputations for the first time in Yucatan, as well as the removal of gall stones from the bladder. In the same era, Dr. S. Cabot practiced a cataract operation for the first time. On June 4, 1847 Dr. José Matilde Sansores applied the first general anaesthetic using ether at the hospital San Juan de Dios, Merida in 1852, Dr. Manuel Campos González practiced the first cataract operation in Campeche. The Yucatecan surgeon Don José Ricardo Sauri arrived in Merida in 1870 and operated on the pterigion for glaucoma, enucleation of an eye and he operated on numerous cataracts. Dr. Manuel Arias Durán carried out the first sinfisiotomia and Dr. Augusto Molina Solís the first operation on a Strangulated hernia in 1885.
In 1884 Dr. Tappam operated on a breast absess for the first time. In 1887 a foreign surgeon removed an ovarian cyst, Dr. Sauri practiced on appendicectomy, mastoiditis and in 1894 the first hypogastric lichotomy. In 1895 Dr. Saturnino Gusmán Cervera operated on the first case of a deep wound in the abdomen and in 1897, Dr. Teodosio Pérez Peniche performed the first rachialgia. At the end of the nineteenth century Dr. Ramón Albert Pacheco operated on the first case of an extrauterine pregnancy, Dr. Eudaldo Ferráez performed the first cesaraen and Dr. Guzmán did the first post abortion scrape. In 1901 Dr. José Ricardo Sauri carried out the first hysterectomy. During the first four decades of the twentieth century, different surgical interventions were performed for the first time in Yucatan. Among them, the following stand out the most; transperitoneal gastroenterostomy, abnormal rectum abocamiento with anal perforation, uretal cystoscopy and cateterism, glandular graft using Voronof's method, fort operation, perineal hysterectomy, transperitoneal nefrectomy, removal of the thyroid gland, ventrofixation of the stump in a partial hyst hystomrectomy Calot's operation and Steinach's operation.