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NERI VELA, Rolando  y  LIEVANO MADRIGAL, Linda. Pages in the history of rheumatology in Mexico. Rev. Fac. Med. (Méx.) [online]. 2017, vol.60, n.1, pp.30-37. ISSN 2448-4865.

Rheumatic diseases have accompanied man ever since the beginning of the human race. The náhuatl culture attributed rheumatic diseases to Ehécatl, the god of the wind. In the sixteenth century, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún reported that cripples and stiffness were caused by the winds originated from the cold. In 1522 the Badianus Codex, feet rheumatism was named podagra and mentions the texóchitl, or stone flower, as a remedy for knee contractions. Alonso López speculated about gout and used various remedies like hot, cold, phlebotomy and vegetal preparations. In 1774, in the journal Mercurio Volante, an article about the use of the so-called gibellin martial pills, or subtle iron, as a treatment for gout and rheumatic pain was published. In the nineteenth century, François Raspali attributed gout to alcohol abuse, sedentary life and mercurial remedies. He also suggested that gout initiates in the toe and even proposed a treatment using an iodide-rubicacea tisane and a camphorated ointment. This article mentions as well, a remedy for rheumatic pain based on a preparation containing earthworms. Other noteworthy works of the time include authors like Manuel Pozo, Juan Collantes y Buenrostro and José de la Paz Bravo. In 1944 the first Service of Rheumatology was founded in Mexico in the National Institute of Cardiology by Javier Robles Gil who also founded the Mexican Society of Rheumatology A.C in 1960. Since rheumatic fever was one of the most common diseases on Mexican population on the mid-twentieth century, epidemiologic studies for the eradication of the disease began.

Palabras llave : Rheumatic diseases; history; treatments' history.

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