Daniel Alcides Carrión García (August 12, 1857 – October 5, 1885) was a

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vian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named.

Fatal experiment

Carrión described the disease in the course of what proved to be a fatal experiment upon himself in 1885, in order to demonstrate definitively the cause of the illness. He was inoculated by close friends with blood which had been taken from a wart of a 14-year-old patient. Carrión's aim was to prove a link between the acute blood stage of Oroya fever with that of the later chronic form of the disease, called ''verruga peruana,'' typified by numerous red, wart-like dermal nodules. Neither the cause nor mode of transmission of Oroya fever was then known and, furthermore, the relationship between the acute and chronic forms of the disease was not yet proven. Carrión developed the classic symptoms of the acute phase of the disease, thereby establishing the link. After Carrión's death from the disease, a fellow student who had assisted in the experiment was arrested for his murder, but later released. In 1938 Maxime Hans Kuczyński survived a similar experiment. Lawrence K. Altman: ''Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine''. University of California Press, Berkeley 1987, , S. 4.Albert Erhardt: ''Infektionen'', Bd. I (= Ergänzungswerk zum ''Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie'', begründet von

Arthur Heffter Arthur Carl Wilhelm Heffter (15 June 1859, in Leipzig – 8 February 1925, in Berlin) was a German pharmacologist and chemist. He was the first chairman of the German Society of Pharmacologists, and was largely responsible for the first ''Handbo ...

, herausgegeben von Oskar Eichler, Bd. 16: ''Erzeugung von Krankheitszuständen durch das Experiment'', Teil 9). Springer, Berlin 1964, S. 118.

Burial site

Carrión is buried in a mausoleum on the premises of the National Hospital ''Dos de Mayo'' in Lima.

National Hero

On October 7, 1991, the Peruvian government announced a law (LeyNº 25342), declaring Carrión to be a "National Hero" ( es, Héroe Nacional).

Named in his honour

* Carrion's Disease as an alternative name for Oroya fever. * The Daniel Alcides Carrión Province in the

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. * October 5 Day of Peruvian Medicine ( es, Día de la medicina Peruana). * The Daniel Alcides Carrión National University (''Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrion'') in

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.Official website of the National University ''Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrion''
/ref> * The National Hospital ''Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión'' in

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. * The Estadio Daniel Alcides Carrión Stadium in the city of

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