title: [Historic memory and commentary about "typhoid fever epidemic at Huar Island": Llanquihue province].
abstract: An article by Dr. Carlos Martin in the first published number of the Revista Médica de Chile (1872-73) journal is remembered and commented. It describes an outbreak in Huar Island in Seno de Reloncavi, an estuary located in the Los Lagos Region in Chile, named "typhoid epidemic". The clinical characteristics are presented and two types of diseases are deducted: acute respiratory infections and typhoid fever.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Estudios Médicos Humanísticos, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Colombia. revinf@sochinf.cl
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Laval R
mesh_terms: D002677:Chile / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history*