Daniel Alcides Carrión
| Daniel Alcides Carrión García | |
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Daniel Alcides Carrión García | |
| Born |
August 12, 1857 Cerro de Pasco, Peru |
| Died |
October 5, 1885 (aged 28) Lima, Peru |
| Nationality |
 Peru |
| Fields | Medicine |
| Known for | Carrion's disease, Oroya fever |
Daniel Alcides Carrión García (August 12, 1857 – October 5, 1885) was a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named.
Fatal experiment
He 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 from a wart between the eyes of a 14-year-old patient.[1] His aim was to prove a link between the acute blood stage of Oroya fever with that of the later chronic form of the disease Verruga Peruana typified by numerous red wart-like dermal nodules. Neither the cause nor mode of transmission of Oroya fever was then known and, furthermore, the relationship between the acute and chronic forms of the disease was not proven.
In 1938 Maxime Hans Kuczynski survived the similar experiment.
Burial site
Daniel Alcides Carrión is buried in a mausoleum on the premises of the National Hospital Dos de mayo in Lima.[2]
National Hero
On October 7, 1991, the Peruvian government announced a law (LeyNº 25342), declaring Daniel Alcides Carrión Garcia to be a "National Hero" (Spanish: Héroe Nacional).[3]
Named in his honour
- Carrion's Disease as an alternative name for Oroya fever.
- The Daniel Alcides Carrión Province in 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.[4]
- 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
- Daniel Alcides Carrión, short biography on whonamedit.com.
- (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.
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