The National Academy of Medicine is colombia's oldest continuous-functioning medical institution. It was created as a society of Medicine and Natural Sciences in January 1873 by the initiative of vari.. Read more »ous physicians, who agreed to create a society that was designed to "study and advance in the field of medical and natural sciences, as well as to give solidarity to the medical corp and unity to the exercise of the profession ".
Since then, it has been studying the main health problems in the country, which were, at the time, environmental sanitation, epidemics of communicable diseases, leprosy, the active principles of the vernacular medicinal plants and the new trends of anatomy, bacteriology, physiology, internal medicine, and surgery that at that time suffered radical transformations in Europe and around the world.
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