title: [Biomedical investigation in Mexico].
abstract: Biomedical research as a professional specialty developed in the Western World in the following four stages: 1) primitive medicine based on magico-religious concepts; 2) hippocratic medicine (500 AD), which renounced supernatural ideas on disease; 3) scientific medicine (1543), which eschewed tradition and authority, and 4) finally in 1813, the first full-time professional biomedical investigator Claude Bernard was appointed in France. Notheless, the first full-time professional biomedical investigator in Mexico did not appear until 1939, and the number is still growing despite present restrictions to investigator growth and development.
authors.affiliation: Medicina Experimental 2do. Piso, Hospital General de México, Dr. Balmis No. 148, Col. Doctores CP 06720 México, DF.
authors.forename: Ruy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pérez-Tamayo
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D008800:Mexico