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Rev Med Chil. 1995 Mar;123(3):384-9.
The conflict between the Chilean President Balmaceda and the parliament lead him to rule the country despotically during 8 months, until his suicide in 1891. During this lapse he persecuted and imprisoned his opponents, including several Medical School professors. Doctor David Benavente, professor of Anatomy and Balmaceda's opponent, wrote a chronicle at the Revista Médica de Chile (1897; 20:46) referring to the changes that occurred at the Medical School: "Flogged by dictatorship's winds, it barely gave sings of life during the eight months that Balmaceda dominated the country". Political passion almost annihilated for ever the first scientific teaching center of the University of Chile, posed a project at the Public Instruction Council "to create in all high schools a special class about the general principles of the Constitution". Once democratic normality was re-established, the development of Chilean Medicine was greatly impelled, sending young physicians to specialize at qualified european centers.
智利总统巴尔马塞达与议会之间的冲突导致他在8个月的时间里专制统治国家，直至1891年自杀。在此期间，他迫害并监禁了包括几名医学院教授在内的反对者。解剖学教授、巴尔马塞达的反对者大卫·贝纳文特医生在《智利医学杂志》（1897年；20:46）上撰写了一篇纪事，提及医学院发生的变化：“在独裁之风的鞭笞下，在巴尔马塞达统治国家的八个月里，它几乎没有生命迹象”。政治狂热几乎永远摧毁了智利大学的第一个科学教学中心，有人在公共教育委员会提出一个项目，“在所有高中开设一门关于宪法总则的特别课程”。一旦重新建立起民主常态，智利医学的发展便受到极大推动，派遣年轻医生到欧洲的合格中心深造。
