The Ecuador National Museum of Medicine is located in Calle Sodiro y Valparaiso, Quito, Ecuador.
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Dr. Eduardo Estrella founded Ecuador's National Museum of Medicine on the 5th of March, 1982. The mission of Dr. Eduardo Estrella was to paint a full picture of the native, natural medicine of South America and to preserve the heritage of the History of Medicine. Main elements of the museum include, Aboriginal Medical Food, nutrition and health, medical archeology, and medicinal plants. There are also sections dedicated to Colonial medicine in South America, as well as institutionalization of academic medicine, hospitals, and medical education.
Bread of America: Aboriginal Ethnohistory of food in Ecuador [1] Medicine in the prehispanic Ecuador [2] Health and indigenous population of Amazonia: proceedings of the First Symposium Health and Population of the Amazon [3] Health and indigenous peoples of the Amazon, Volume 2 [4] Native medicine: Aboriginal medical practice in the Ecuadorian mountains [5] Medical and socio-economic [6] Flora Huayaquilensis: the botanical expedition of Juan Tafalla the Royal Audience of Quito, 1799-1808 [7] Maternal role and sexuality: a study of women in a rural population of the province of Pichincha [8] A Study on the machine as you Travel to South America by the river of the Amazons [9] Pre-Columbian cultures [10] Status of mothers and children in the Ecuadorian Amazon: health, nutrition, and physical growth in the Ecuadorian Amazon [11] Status of mothers and children in areas of major projects: health and nutrition situation of the canton Sushufindi [12] Jose Mejia, the first Ecuadorian botanist [13] Medicine in the prehispanic Ecuador [14] Dr. Eduardo Estrella in Google Books! -->
For over 200 years the documents of the Expeditions of Juan Tafalla that details one of the first expeditions to South America that documents plants was done by Juan Tafalla who was under the direction of the Royal Audiencia of Quito. The works were never published during the life of Juan Tafalla but instead, all his materials and paintings were in the Archives of the Royal Botanical Gardens of Madrid, waiting to be discovered. Dr. Eduardo Estrella Aguirre was in the Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Madrid Spain in 1985 where In the documentary of the "Division IV" corresponding to the expedition of Ruiz and Pavon in Peru and Chile, Eduardo Estrella found a lot of descriptions of plants whose origin corresponded to places belonging to the Royal Audience of Quito.
This was a job that took over three years of almost non stop work in the archives before Dr. Estrella to uncover the mystery. The folios in the archives of the Royal Botanical Gardens of Madrid, Spain were numbered and contained the mysterious initials FH and differed from others that did not correspond to the flora of the Royal Court, and had the initials FP Still nothing was clear, but there was sufficient evidence to consider that was the trail of something important and this let to the publishing of the Flora Huayaquilensis and after 200 years, Dr. Eduardo Estrella finally published the hard work and giving the credit to the expedition of Juan José Tafalla Navascués.