[Doctor Levi B. Salmans, founder of The Good Samaritan sanitarium in Guanajuato].
In this research we focus on the medical evangelist Levi B. Salmans, and The Good Samaritan sanitarium. Doctor Salmans lived in Mexico for about 50 years (1885-1935). During the first part of his stay, he was devoted to found churches and Methodist schools. However, from 1891 he took a turn in his career by founding dispensaries in different towns of Guanajuato to create, in 1899, the private charity association for the sick and infirm The Good Samaritan. His intense, intellectual, and practical work led him to create health journals, to train nurses, and to promote physiotherapies in accordance with the science advances of that time. By itself, this research shows that the history of medicine in Mexico still has long way to go and that Protestant communities, in favor of modernity and scientific knowledge, took a big part in shaping the history of this discipline in Mexico.
Posgrado en Ciencias Médicas, Odontológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México. oliviertcarlos@gmail.com.
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D002608:Charities / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000266:history*; D008800:Mexico; D066189:Missionaries / Q000266:history*; D033303:Protestantism / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine
Altruism; Beneficence; History of medicine; Mexico; Protestantism