Daniel Alcides Carrión

Introduction

Daniel Alcides Carrión García emerged in Monte de Pasco on August 13, 1857, he was a
Peruvian medicine student, son of the Ecuadorian doctor Baltasar Carrión Torres and Dolores
García NavarroOnce he obtained his bachelor's degree, he enrolled in 1878 in the Faculty of
Medicine of the Greater National University of San Marcos, to study Medicine. Throughout his
doctoral studies, he expressed concerns about knowing a characteristic pathology of certain
central valleys of Peru, the so-called "Peruvian wart". Driven by his spirit of inquiry and
scientific nationalism, upon observing that doctors from Chile were developing inquiries about
the Peruvian wart, he made the decision to inoculate himself with secretions extracted from a
patient's warts, with the intention of reproducing the Peruvian wart.

Body:

The Peruvian wart was successful for the Incas, who had words to designate it. Carrión has
been transferred to the French clinic Maison de Santé (in Lima), on October 4, 1885 he
received intravenous injections of carbolic acid as a last resort measure, fell into a coma and
died on October 5. Due to their sacrifice we understand today that the Peruvian wart and
Oroya fever are the same disease.

Conclusion:

Carrión in the year of his death was 28 years old, he was a 6th year student at the "San
Fernando" School of Medicine of the Greater National University of San Marcos. He has been
an External Student of Medicine at the Maison de Santé Hospital, and an Internal Medicine
Student at the 2 de Mayo and San Bartolomé Hospitals. As a student of the last year of Human
Medicine, he was investigating the pathology called Peruvian Wart for his bachelor's thesis. I
was carrying out the Medicine Internship at the San Bartolomé Nosocomio and verified the
medical records of patients from the 2 de Mayo Nosocomio, where the largest proportion of
people with this pathology arrived. Chávez performed 4 inoculations on Carrión's arms, and
the first signs of the pathology appeared 23 days later, on September 20, day by day he wrote
the evolution of the pathology until the last moments that he was able to do it, until, Already
being quite ill, he has been taken to the Maison de Santé clinic to receive a blood transfusion
as indicated by the medical board, but this was not done due to his poor general condition. He
died on October 5, 1885 in a bed at the French Hospital in Lima (current Maisón de Santé
clinic), of a pathology that the medicine of his time had not been able to diagnose or attempt
 correctly. However, Carrión's self-experience was useful to show that Oroya Fever and
Peruvian Wart are the same pathology, and also represented an incentive for doctors in Peru
to continue researching

Achievements: As it did

inoculated with bartonellosis virus Alcides Carrión's heroic experiment, when

inoculated with the bartonellosis virus,
provided clinical evidence that allowed future
doctors to scientifically corroborate the
theory that Oroya fever and Peruvian wart are
symptoms of the same pathology.