[The first Chilean journal of psychiatry, neurology and forensic medicine].

This historical review refers to the first Chilean Journal of Psychiatry, Neurology and Forensic Medicine, that was published for the first time in July 1917, and allows to get acquainted of the knowledge level of those times. The publication was in charge of physicians from "Casa de Orates", the Clinic of Nervous and Mental diseases and the Chair of Forensic Medicine. The journal publication was interrupted in 1919. More than half of papers were of psychiatric topics, reviewing a disease or updating treatments. Analysis of psychiatric themes showed a special interest for problems related to hospital management and mental health.