Inside the Ecuador National Museum of Medicine was established in 1982 by Dr

The Ecuador National Museum of Medicine is located in Quito,

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Mission

Dr. Eduardo Estrella founded Ecuador's National Museum of Medicine on 5 March 1982. Estrella's mission was to paint a full picture of the native, natural medicine of

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and to preserve Ecuadoran heritage. The main elements of the museum include Aboriginal Medical Food
hat's this here for?-->, nutrition and health, medical archeology, and medicinal plants. There is a full museum with Dential equipment from the late 17th, 18th through the very start 19th century such as Antique Microscopes, Antique Medicine Bottles, medical instrument literature and a complete library of knowledge and language of Andian Medicine Plant

There are also sections dedicated to Colonial medicine in South America, as well as institutionalization of academic medicine, hospitals, and medical education. Dr. Eduardo Estrella studied medicine at the

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. After graduation, Dr Estrella did his Postgraduate education on Radiotherapy at

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from 1968 to 1970. He did his specialized studies in psychiatry at the

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from 1970 to 1973,

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. Aguirre later chaired the medical faculty at the Central University of Ecuador. Dr Estrella got his doctoral degree from the Catholic University of Quito in the 1980s. This was after he had published extensively on Andian medicine and on the history of medicine.

References

historiadelamedicina.org Ecuador National Museum of Medicine

ecuador.com Museo Nacional de Medicina del Ecuador

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Museums in Ecuador

www.intramed.net

Google Maps - Dr. Eduardo Estrella Museum of Medicine in Quito, Ecuador
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