TY - JOUR PY - 1995// TI - Nicanor Rojas: decano de la Facultad de Medicina durante la dictadura de Balmaceda JO - Revista Medica de Chile A1 - Costa Casaretto, Claudio SP - 916 EP - 22 VL - 123 IS - 7 N2 - The chilean President José Manuel Balmaceda (1886-1891) had a constitutional conflict with the parliament. This conflict lead to a revolution that ended with the President's suicide, when he was refuged at the Argentinian Embassy in September 1891. President Balmaceda conducted an authoritarian government during several months. A decree from February 1897, disposed the reorganization of the medical school, dismissed and imprisoned the dean, Dr. Barros-Borgoño and nominated new professors. Dr. Nicanor Rojas, professor of gynecology was assigned as dean and Dr. Carlos Sazie as secretary. During the war against Perú and Bolivia, Dr. Rojas worked gratuitously and became prominent, being named Chief Surgeon of the Chilean army. After the thriumph of the revolution against President Balmaceda, Dr. Rojas was discharged and died in 1892

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