Cuban doctors go by bicycle to attend a multiple birth in Remedios at the end of the 19th century.
In this article by Luis Machado Ordetx, which appears on the Cubanos de Kilates Blog, we find some interesting references to the practice of Medicine in the Jurisdiction of San Juan de los Remedios. Already in the late nineteenth century, doctors used bicycles for their work, the doctors came to attend thanks to the speed when moving by bicycle to a woman in labor who resulted in a quadruple delivery; interesting fact is that in Remedios at the end of the 19th century with 41 thousand inhabitants there were more than 60 doctors practicing. But let’s see the article:what is winstrol
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By: Luis Machado Ordetx
Doctors of San Juan de los Remedios propagated the use of the bicycle in May 1894 to travel through the nearby regions in order to care for their patients. Five years cycling had been born on the scene of the European sports competition, and the Cuban doctors were not interested in challenging the battered state of the neighboring roads, much less the armed assaults that, daily, unleashed criminals circumscribed in that jurisdiction.
El Sinsonte, a remediate publication, in August editions of that year, includes a headline that typifies ” The furor of the bicycle “, and highlights how, in addition, ” excursions are organized everywhere and even to neighboring towns; the most enthusiastic are D. Domingo Lagomasino and D. Manuel Fuentes Pando. In Placetas, Dr. Fusté, Candela, Miguel Palacios and the children Eugenio Escarzada and José A. Fortún, who received the first bicycles that circulated through the streets of this town, ” says José A. Martínez-Fortún and Foyo in 1930 in the Annals and Ephemeris of San Juan de los Remedios and its Jurisdiction.
The Chicago Exposition to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Columbus to American lands and the meeting between two cultures, led to an unusual boom in the promotion of the bicycle, a rolling team that shortened the distances between the populations, thus clarifies the Villa Clara from Manuel Serafín Pichardo , one of the journalists who attended the international event in the United States.
Raimundo Cabrera also supports him in his travel impressions contained in the Letters to Govín (1893), a kind of substantial chronicles of customs that enrich personal and impressionist opinion with criteria collected by the periodical press of the time.
It is strange that Antonio Miguel Alcover and Beltrán in the Historical Memory of the Villa de Sagua la Grande and its Jurisdiction (1905) does not refer to the use of the bicycle in that locality, considered together with Cárdenas and Caibarién, as one of the greatest cheerleaders of the country in abundance of teams.
Nor in his memorable analysis of Journalism in Sagua. Its manifestations (1901) – endorsed as the largest chronological study – makes a minimal mention of the human-powered personal transport vehicle. Strange! In the three territories of the north coast, cycling is instituted as part of the spiritual and material cultures of travelers.
Martínez-Fortún y Foyo states that the first bicycles that appeared in Remedios came from the Michaux factory and were imported from San Francisco, California. They had rubber tires and the drive was from the chain developed in 1889 by John Boyd Dunlop for Kemp Starley’s so-called ” safety bike “.
On March 27, 1894, an event occurred in Remedios: Graduates Raymant and Rojas Oria, surgeons, attended the woman in labor «Da. Buenviaje Carrillo, a neighbor on Calle Gloria on the corner of Gutiérrez, gives birth to four children. The first was male, weighed 3 1/2 pounds, and was born at six in the morning; the second female, three pounds four ounces; the third male, three and a half pounds, and the fourth three pounds. ” The doctors came to the place mounted on their respective bicycles; what was considered an everyday event, clarifies Martínez-Fortún y Foyo.
San Juan de los Remedios by that date has more than 41 thousand inhabitants, indicates the essayist, and even women became passionate about bicycles in the effort to follow the bodybuilding that Eugene Sandow drew up in his practical studies.
However, surgeons, Latinos and Renaissance physicians are the ones who promote the “machine” the most, and they are confident of the qualities that it leaves to the physiology, anatomy and therapeutics of the human body. Also the physical aesthetics entered the recommendation.
Not all residents had monetary possibilities to acquire such equipment, which generally cost less than 60 pesos and was sold in existing hardware in the cities.
Someone recently asked why conceptual discrimination among practitioners. Martínez-Fortún y Foyo endorses it in La Medicina en Remedios y su Jurisdicción (1930) by delimiting that the titles issued by the Convent of San Juan de Letrán, in Havana, and also in foreign universities, mainly European, included since 1726 three Different categories: Bachelor, Bachelor and Doctor. Here another division arises: surgeon doctors treated all illnesses, while Latinos internal, and Renaissance external, in exceptional cases and emergencies in wounds occurred in the organs imprisoned in the rib cage.
The Renaissance surgeon parchment was the most quickly acquired, and Martínez-Fortún adds that it required less knowledge and practical examinations. Therefore, professionals in that discipline were more abundant. The Protomedicato de La Habana jealously guarded the authentication of the titles, even legitimizing a false one issued in favor of Agustín Vidal Spain, who on August 23, 1830 installed a consulting room in the city of Remedios, a territory that by 1890 had more 60 physicians, 12 dentists and bleeders, as well as 10 dispensary pharmacies that served properties in Camajuaní, Vueltas, Placetas, Guaracabuya, Yaguajay, Caibarién and Mayajigua.
In 1890 the scourges of diphtheria, typhoid and yellow fevers, and also of smallpox, demanded a wide mobility of the remedian doctors, who enjoyed recognized prestige in the province of Santa Clara, a territory that with more than 280 thousand inhabitants died. that year about 7 thousand 834 patients, points José A. Martínez-Fortún y Foyo in the Epidemiology (Chronological Synthesis), published in 1952. The transportations, at that time, were made on horseback and on traveling trains, and after 1894 , to nearby areas, they were pedaling in individual rolling media that history coined as a bicycle.