Cervera-Andrade A

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ABSTRACT

Harald Seidelin, a Danish Doctor, came to Merida at the beginning of spring 1906. With the arrival of Seidelin came most outstanding period of the Merida School of Medicine, since at the time the School of Medicine had some excellet professors like Dr. Saturnino Guzman Cervera in Surgery; Maximiliano Canto Mendez and Gustavo Vega y Loyo in the clinic. The diagnoses were ratified or rectified in the ampitheatre and in the laboratory, they were not subject to slander, but received an impartial scientific verdict. The Chairs of Clinical Chemistry, Pathological Anatomy and Bacteriology became useful. Seidelin was also the first Doctor in Merida, and perhaps in the whole of Mexico, to use blood tests to confirm diagnoses; the Wasserman test for syphilis and the Widal test for the typhoid fever microbe.
Dr. Seidelin was in Merida from 1906 to 1910, on leaving he resigned the chairs, leaving them in the hands of this disciples; Amado Villa in Clinical chemistry, Diego Hernandez Fajardo in the management of the laboratories, Abelardo Lara Negron in Bacteriology and Hircano Ayuso Oribe in the Pathological Anatomy Laboratory. On December 29, 1911, he returned to Yucatan commossioned by the Liverpool School of Medicine to study yellow fever, he stayed for five months. He left Merida on May 27, 1912 for Liverpool and never returned to Yucatan. Afterwards, he worked in other countries around the world and a few years before he died, he sufferred the disappointment of proving that the paraplasma flavigenum was not the causal agent of yellow fever. The paraplasma became history.