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PERU
Volume XI
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MEXICO The enormous advantages for the accurate, rapid and early diagnosis of disease in modern medicine obtained in all our countries by the multiform application of Roentgen rays cannot be over-emphasized. People all over the world, whether suffering disease or not, cannot realize how much indebted they are to Roentgen. A tremendous number of lives have been saved through the benefit of his discovery. DONATO G. ALARCON, M.D., F.C.C.P., Regent Mexico City, Mexico. REPUBLIC OF PANAMA The advent of roentgenology marks in our country, as for all of humanity, a definite step forward in scientific progress that has made possible greater precision in the study, diagnosis and treatment in many fields of modern medicine. The .benefits received from this achievement continue to increase with the gradual widening of our knowledge of its possibilities, accentuating in this manner, even more, the eternal debt of gratitude we have for its discoverer. AMADEO VICENTE MASTELLARI, M.D., F.C.C.P., Regent Panama City, Republic of Panama. PERU Peru received the benefit of the great discovery of Roentgen in 1896, the year in which Professor Constantino T. Carvallo obtained the first x-ray equipment. As a symbolical initiation of this event, x-rays were taken of the hands of Mr. Nicolas de Pierola, the first democratic president of Peru, and Mr. Ricardo Palma, the great traditionalist writer. . The first professorship in radiology in our official curriculum started in 1923, and the first professor was Dr. Esteban Campodonico. The present professor in the Nacional University of San Marcos is Dr. Oscar Soto. Actually, the x-ray is used in Peru in every field of medicine and medical investigation, and the benefit which Peru receives from this discovery confirms our gratitude to the scientific genius of Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen. OVIDIO GARCIA ROSELL, M.D., F.C.C.P., Governor Lima, Peru. SOUTH AFRICA In common with older countries, South Africa has shared fully in the results of Roentgen's great discovery, the jubilee of which we now celebrate. As in the old world, the x-ray has here found its most important scope in the councils of physicians and surgeons. All our large hospitals are fully equipped with diagnostic as well as therapeutic units,
COMMENTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
683
MEXICO The enormous advantages for the accurate, rapid and early diagnosis of disease in modern medicine obtained in all our countries by the multiform application of Roentgen rays cannot be over-emphasized. People all over the world, whether suffering disease or not, cannot realize how much indebted they are to Roentgen. A tremendous number of lives have been saved through the benefit of his discovery. DONATO G. ALARCON, M.D., F.C.C.P., Regent Mexico City, Mexico. REPUBLIC OF PANAMA The advent of roentgenology marks in our country, as for all of humanity, a definite step forward in scientific progress that has made possible greater precision in the study, diagnosis and treatment in many fields of modern medicine. The .benefits received from this achievement continue to increase with the gradual widening of our knowledge of its possibilities, accentuating in this manner, even more, the eternal debt of gratitude we have for its discoverer. AMADEO VICENTE MASTELLARI, M.D., F.C.C.P., Regent Panama City, Republic of Panama. PERU Peru received the benefit of the great discovery of Roentgen in 1896, the year in which Professor Constantino T. Carvallo obtained the first x-ray equipment. As a symbolical initiation of this event, x-rays were taken of the hands of Mr. Nicolas de Pierola, the first democratic president of Peru, and Mr. Ricardo Palma, the great traditionalist writer. . The first professorship in radiology in our official curriculum started in 1923, and the first professor was Dr. Esteban Campodonico. The present professor in the Nacional University of San Marcos is Dr. Oscar Soto. Actually, the x-ray is used in Peru in every field of medicine and medical investigation, and the benefit which Peru receives from this discovery confirms our gratitude to the scientific genius of Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen. OVIDIO GARCIA ROSELL, M.D., F.C.C.P., Governor Lima, Peru. SOUTH AFRICA In common with older countries, South Africa has shared fully in the results of Roentgen's great discovery, the jubilee of which we now celebrate. As in the old world, the x-ray has here found its most important scope in the councils of physicians and surgeons. All our large hospitals are fully equipped with diagnostic as well as therapeutic units,