de la Garza-Villaseñor J Lorenzo, Pantoja-Millán Juan Pablo
Departamento de Cirugía General, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, D.F.
Rev Invest Clin. 2008 May-Jun;60(3):263-72.
Almost 250 years ago the autopsy of Agustin de Ahumada y Villalon was performed by Domingo Russi, Chief Surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Natives in Mexico City. This situation will be unimportant if the former wasn't the 42nd Viceroy of New Spain; his autopsy showed a situs inversus totalis, and probably this is the first scientific report of such malformation. For many years the report by Mathew Baillie (1761-1823) of an autopsy with the same findings as the first of its kind was believed, but actually the former almost three decades earlier was performed. In 1688 Jean M. Mery (1645-1722) at the Paris Academy of Medicine gave a talk reporting autopsy findings of the same malformations. Some aspects of the life of both personages are described, the autopsy report is showed and a short history about postmortem studies are mentioned mainly those made in Spain and New Spain. Through many centuries a very close relationship has been kept and medicine has not been the exception, in the field of human pathology in the middle third of the 20th century a distinguished pathologist, Dr. Isaac Costero-Tudanca, migrated to Mexico and gave flowering to pathology and a great generation of Mexican pathologists was generated headed by Dr. Ruy Perez-Tamayo.
大约250年前，墨西哥城皇家土著医院的首席外科医生多明戈·鲁西对阿古斯丁·德·阿胡马达·伊·比利亚隆进行了尸检。如果前者不是新西班牙的第42任总督，这种情况可能就无关紧要了；他的尸检显示为完全性内脏反位，这可能是这种畸形的第一份科学报告。多年来，人们一直认为马修·贝利（1761 - 1823）的一份尸检报告是同类中的第一份，其结果与上述相同，但实际上前者的尸检要早近三十年。1688年，让·M·梅里（1645 - 1722）在巴黎医学院发表了一篇报告，讲述了相同畸形的尸检结果。文中描述了这两位人物的一些生平事迹，展示了尸检报告，并提及了尸检研究的简史，主要是西班牙和新西班牙地区的相关研究。几个世纪以来，两国一直保持着非常密切的关系，医学领域也不例外。在20世纪中叶，一位杰出的病理学家艾萨克·科斯特罗 - 图丹卡博士移民到了墨西哥，推动了病理学的蓬勃发展，并造就了以鲁伊·佩雷斯 - 塔马约博士为首的一代优秀墨西哥病理学家。
