Department of Human Anatomy, José María Vargas Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; Venezuelan Society of History of Medicine, Medical Learning Center La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela.
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José María Vargas (1786-1854): Venezuelan medical doctor, surgeon, optician, anatomist, chemist, botanist, professor, geologist, mineralogist, and mathematician. Second President of Venezuela (1835-1836), First republican dean, he reformed medicine studies in 1827 establishing human anatomical dissection in the Universidad Central de Venezuela where he taught human anatomy between 1827 and 1853 along with surgery and chemistry. In 1838, he wrote Curso de Lecciones y demostraciones Anatómicas, the first book on the subject printed in Venezuela for the teaching of human anatomy.
何塞·马里亚·瓦尔加斯（1786-1854）：委内瑞拉医学博士、外科医生、验光师、解剖学家、化学家、植物学家、教授、地质学家、矿物学家和数学家。委内瑞拉第二任总统（1835-1836 年），第一任共和院长，他于 1827 年改革了医学研究，在委内瑞拉中央大学建立了人体解剖学，他在那里教授人体解剖学，同时教授外科和化学，时间从 1827 年到 1853 年。1838 年，他撰写了《解剖学课程和演示》，这是委内瑞拉第一本关于人体解剖学教学的书籍。
