Daniel Alcides Carrión
Daniel Alcides Carrión García | |
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Born | |
Died | October 5, 1885 | (aged 28)
Known for | Carrion's disease (Oroya fever) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | medicine |
Daniel Alcides Carrión García (August 12, 1857 – October 5, 1885) was a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named.
Fatal experiment
Carrión described the disease in the course of what proved to be a fatal experiment upon himself in 1885, in order to demonstrate definitively the cause of the illness. He was inoculated by close friends with blood which had been taken from a wart of a 14-year-old patient.
After Carrión's death from the disease, a fellow student who had assisted in the experiment was arrested for his murder, but later released.[2] In 1938 Maxime Hans Kuczyński survived a similar experiment. [3][4]
Burial site
Carrión is buried in a mausoleum on the premises of the Dos de Mayo National Hospital in Lima.[5]
National Hero
On October 7, 1991, the Peruvian government announced a law (LeyNº 25342), declaring Carrión to be a "National Hero" (Spanish: Héroe Nacional).[6]
Named in his honour
- Carrion's Disease as an alternative name for Oroya fever.
- The Pasco Region.
- October 5 Day of Peruvian Medicine (Spanish: Día de la medicina Peruana).
- The Daniel Alcides Carrión National University (Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrion) in Cerro de Pasco.[7]
- The National Hospital Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión in El Callao.
- The Estadio Daniel Alcides Carrión Stadium in the city of Cerro de Pasco.
See also
References
- ^ Top 10 Researchers Who Experimented On Themselves; Top Tenz; accessed ???
- ^ Cutis, vol. 48, iss. 4-6, p. 339, 1991.
- ISBN 0-520-21281-9, S. 4.
- ^ Albert Erhardt: Infektionen, Bd. I (= Ergänzungswerk zum Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie, begründet von Arthur Heffter, herausgegeben von Oskar Eichler, Bd. 16: Erzeugung von Krankheitszuständen durch das Experiment, Teil 9). Springer, Berlin 1964, S. 118.
- ^ (in Spanish) Department of Health / History of Dos de Mayo Hospital Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Spanish) Ministerio de Salud – Detalles Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine; Department of Health; accessed ???
- ^ (in Spanish) Official website of the National University Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrion
Notes
- Daniel Alcides Carrión, short biography on whonamedit.com.
- (in Spanish) Gregorio Delgado García and Ana M. Delgado Rodríguez, Daniel Alcides Carrión y su aporte al conocimiento clínico de la fiebre de la Oroya y verruga peruana, Cuaderno de Historia, No. 80, 1995. First presented at I Congreso Nacional de Historia de la Ciencia y la Técnica. Havana, November 15, 1994.