Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-DE-ROMO, Ana Cecilia. II. Daniel Vergara Lope Escobar: Life and Opus Lost in History. Gac. Méd. Méx [online]. 2004, vol.140, n.4, pp.411-411. ISSN 2696-1288.

This article focuses on the life and work of the Mexican physiologist Daniel Vergara Lope, a pioneer of Mexican medical science. Vergara Lope was the first to describe the physiologic mechanisms of adaptation to high elevations in a scientific opus that resounds with a profound sense of nationalism. The historical, social, and personal crises he experienced during his life and his own complex personality were determining factors in the mediocre status that history has assigned to him.

Keywords : Daniel Vergara Lope; History of Medicine; The Porfiriates; nationalism.