Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-PAZ, Carlos Agustín  and  GOMEZ-DE LARA, José Luis. Statistics of trauma surgery in Mexico in the 19th century. Cir. gen [online]. 2021, vol.43, n.3, pp.205-210.  Epub June 02, 2023. ISSN 1405-0099.  https://doi.org/10.35366/108576.

Historically, trauma cases have been a constant in all cultures, but in the way that has been explained through statistics from the 19th century in our country, it has been possible to give a quantitative vision to solve this problem. Although medical statistics was born with the beginning of the activities of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico in 1864, the first statistical articles are of a non-traumatic medical type by that of the Australian physician Frederich Semeleder (1832-1901) in 1878, referring to ovarian cysts. One of the first with a quantitative description was that of Dr. Manuel Soriano (1837-1927) in 1886 in the same journal of the National Academy, describing the low mortality with the use of antisepsis in battle wounded. Making a review of theses and articles, we can affirm that the trauma at the end of the 19th century in our country occurred predominantly in young people between 25 and 35 years old, they were due to the sequelae of injuries of cutting trauma caused by trams and injuries by sharp weapons (79% of cases) with a mortality of 41%.

Keywords : surgery; history; trauma; amputations; biostatistics.

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