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(AC-S04) Week 04 - Task - Assignment - A Trip To The Past
(AC-S04) Week 04 - Task - Assignment - A Trip To The Past
Students:
Today we will talk about the Peruvian person we admire the most.
Hipolito Unanue considered the father of Peruvian medicine and one of the founders of the
San Fernando School of Medicine, currently a faculty of the UNMSM.He was born on August
13, 1755 in the city of Arica. His parents were Miguel Antonio Unanue y Montalivet and
Manuela Pavón y Salgado de Araujo. His family was of low economic resources.He was
considered the "Father of Peruvian Medicine" and a national hero, for which reason his
remains have been found in the Panteón de los Próceres de la Nación since October 1927.
Both recognitions are the result, on the one hand, of his outstanding activity. as a doctor at
the end of the Colony as a promoter of a modernizing and scientific current; and on the
other, because of the role he played in political power during the transit between the Colony