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- Title
Daniel Alcides Carrión.
- Authors
Schultz, Myron G.
- Abstract
The article recounts the life and work of Daniel Alcides Carrión, a medical student in Lima, Peru who died from an experiment that he performed on himself when he was 26 years old. Carrión was in his sixth year of medical training at the Facultad de Medicina in Lima when he undertook his experiment. He became concerned with the difficulty in diagnosing verruga peruana as his studies progressed. He thought of inoculating himself in order for him to study the incubation period and symptoms of the disease. When he was admitted at the Dos de Mayo Hospital, Carrión inoculated his arm with blood taken from the verruga of a boy patient. He fell into a coma 39 days after the inoculation and eventually died.
- Subjects
LIMA (Peru); PERU; CARRION, Daniel Alcides; MEDICAL experimentation on humans; CAUSES of death; VERRUGA peruana; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 6, p1026
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1606.091937