Gardeta-Sabater P
Unidad de investigaciones Históricas en Medicina, Museo Nacional de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
Rev Med Chil. 1994 Feb;122(2):221-7.
The present article in an approximation to the study of one of the functions commended to the Royal Court of the examining board of physicians in the Spaniard colonies in the 18th century: the control of medical sciences practice. The study is restricted to the "Kingdom of Chile", temporally framed to the second half of the eighteenth century and performed fundamentally with the sources existent in the National Archive and in the National Medicine Museum of Chile. In the first place, a sketch of the existent situation before 1750 was performed, followed by a detailed analysis of the way in which this control was accomplished in the second half of the eighteenth century, the commissioned subjects, the obtained results and the causes for these results. After all these analyses, the ineffectiveness of this control became evident, allowing the proliferation of witch doctors and quacks. This was due, in part to the court in charge of the supervision and in part to the authorities and the own attributes of the kingdom.
本文近似于对18世纪西班牙殖民地医师审查委员会皇家法庭所负责的一项职能的研究：医学实践的管控。该研究仅限于“智利王国”，时间设定在18世纪后半叶，主要依据智利国家档案馆和国家医学博物馆现存的资料进行。首先，勾勒了1750年之前的现存状况，随后详细分析了18世纪后半叶这种管控是如何实施的、被委托的事项、取得的成果以及这些成果的成因。经过所有这些分析，这种管控的无效性变得明显，这使得巫医和庸医得以泛滥。这部分归因于负责监管的法庭，部分归因于王国的当局及自身特性。
