Hermilio Valdizán

Hermilio Valdizán

Hermilio Valdizán Medrano (born November 20, 1885 in Huánuco ; died December 25, 1929 in Lima ) was a Peruvian doctor who specialized in psychiatry and neurology and is known for his works on Peruvian medical history . He is considered Padre de la Psiquiatría Peruana ("Father of Peruvian Psychiatry"). He has also emerged as a writer .

Live and act

Hermilio Valdizán was born on November 20, 1885 in Huánuco in the Peruvian Andes . He studied medicine at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in the capital Lima and received by the Peruvian government a scholarship for a Europe -Stay. He studied in the city of Bologna in Italy and also toured France and Switzerland . After the outbreak of the First World War he returned to Peru. He worked on the history of the Lima Medical Faculty , which deals with the study of medicine during the various periods of the Conquest, the Colonial Era and the Republic of his country. One of his most important contributions was the establishment of the first psychiatric outpatient clinic at Dos de Mayo Hospital in Lima. In 1916 he founded the Chair of Nervous and Mental Diseases at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (Main University of San Marcos) in Lima. He also worked as a journalist for El Tiempo , where he published anonymously, and also wrote articles for La Prensa under the pseudonym Juan Serrano. He was one of the founders of the Anales de la Facultad de Medicina (Annals of the Faculty of Medicine), of which he was deputy editor (1918). In 1920 he published the first edition of the Revista de Psiquiatría y disciplinas conexas (journal of psychiatry and related disciplines) with Honorio Delgado (1892-1969 ). From 1922 to 1926 he was editor of the journal Unanue , which was devoted to the history of Peruvian medicine. From 1921 he headed the Asilo Colonia " Victor Larco Herrera " for the mentally ill in the Magdalena district and later became director of the psychiatric hospital of the same name. He reformed treatment methods for the mentally ill. He is the author of a work on Peruvian folk medicine ( Medicina popular Peruana , 1922, in three volumes), which he wrote in collaboration with Ángel Maldonado . He wrote a history of Peruvian medicine that was published posthumously (1944). He was a member of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua .

The Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán in Huánuco , founded in 1964, is named after him. There is also a hospital named after him, the Hermilio Valdizán Hospital .

Works (selection)

Hospital Dos de Mayo in Lima (facade)

Asilo Colonia "Víctor Larco Herrera" in the Magdalena district (1920s)

• La delincuencia en el Perú (1909) / "Crimes in Peru" (about various factors of crimes in the social groups of Peru, especially the indigenous population)
• "Las perversiones sexuales en los primitivos peruanos" (1911) / "Sexual perversion among the Peruvian primitives"
• Los problemas médicos del matrimonio (1912) / "Medical Problems of Marriage"
• La Psiquiatría en el Perú (1912) / "Psychiatry in Peru"
• Un psichiatra del secolo XVI (1913) / "A psychiatrist of the 16th century"
• El arte del barbero (1913) / "The Art of the Barber"
• Martín de Porres cirujano (1913) / "The surgeon Martin de Porres"
• De otros tiempos ... (1914) / "From other times ..."
• La alienación mental entre los primitivos peruanos (Lima, 1915) Online
• Los factores etiológicos de la alienación mental a través de la historia del Perú (Lima, 1917)
• Locos de la colonia (1919) / "Locos of the Colony"
• La Medicina popular peruana / "Peruvian Folk Medicine" (Lima: Imprenta Torres Aguirre 1922 (Contribución al Folklore Médico des Perú), in three volumes, in collaboration with Ángel Maldonado )
• Historia de enfermos (1923) / “Medical history”, narrative work ( online ).
• Anecdótica médica peruana (1924) / “Peruvian Medical Anecdotes” Online .
• Una recopilación de las obras del doctor José Casimiro Ulloa (1924-1925). / A collection of the works of the doctor Jose Casimiro Ulloa, in two volumes (1924–1925)
• Diccionario de Medicina Peruana / "Dictionary of Peruvian Medicine", a reference work in six volumes, of which only one volume was published when he died (1923). A second volume appeared in 1938, and the remainder since 1957 in the Anales de la Facultad de Medicina (Annals of the Medical Faculty). In addition to biographical information, it also brings together information on literature, etymology, folklore and medicine.
• Los médicos italianos en el Perú (1924) / "Italian Doctors in Peru"
• Historia de la Facultad de Medicina de Lima 1811-1911 / "History of the Medical Faculty of Lima 1811-1911" (1925, in three volumes).
• El doctor Hipólito Unanue (1926) / “The doctor Hipólito Unanue ”
• Apuntes para la bibliografía médica peruana (1928) / "Notes on Peruvian Medical Literature"
• Hacia una reforma de los estudios médicos (1928) / "On the way to a reform of medical studies"
• Crónicas médicas (1929) / "Medical Chronicles"
• A ti, que eres padre (1934) / "To you, who are your father"
• Historia de la medicina peruana (posthumously, 1944) / "History of Peruvian Medicine"

literature

• Carlos Ramos Núñez: Historia del derecho civil peruano: siglos XIX y XX [History of Peruvian civil law: 19th and 20th centuries], Tomo VI El Código de 1936 ; Volume 1 lot artífices. Lima 2006 ( partial online view )
• Ramón Pardal: Medicina aborigen americana . 1st edition 1937, reprinted by Editorial Renacimiento, Sevilla 1998, ISBN 84-89371-45-8 ( partial online view )

Web links

• Hermilio Valdizán (Spanish)
• Biografía de Hermilio Valdizán ( UNMSM )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ November 20, his birthday, is known in Peru as Día de la Psiquiatría (Psychiatry Day); see. Día de la Psiquiatría Peruana - deperu.com (accessed July 1, 2017)
2. ↑ Hermilio Valdizán - accessed June 1, 2017
3. ↑ Hermilio Valdizán - accessed June 1, 2017
4. ↑ Homepage of the National University Hermilio Valdizán