Rev Invest Clin
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Smoking has a history almost as old as the own leaf of the tobacco, although in fact the act to smoke was restored in the general society after the discovery of America, considering itself even beneficial for the health, but fundamentally like a social and conventional conduct of the high nobility. In XVI century the first detractors began to appear but it was necessary many years to arrive the XX century when it was begun to relate the habit to tobacco and cancer, some years after the commercialization at industrial level of this habit. At the present the social awareness is tried towards the sanitary prevention. The declaration of Warsaw, the Marco Agreement and other sanitary measures forehead the habit to tobacco, are clear examples of this medical-social restlessness that tries to exile the smoking as a social, conventional and good seen conduct to try a prevention and a greater quality of life of the individuals.
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Historical Article
[On human morphological studies in New Spain and in Mexico of nineteenth century].
The renewed anatomical studies reached a culmination in the XVI century allowing the discovery of the pulmonary blood circulation and later of the systemic blood circulation. The XVII century saw the coming of microscopic anatomy and the XVIII witness the systematization of pathological anatomy. These studies will be impelled during following century toward the clinical-anatomical comparison. ⋯ This fact permitted to unify the anatomical teaching. If on examines the lists of textbooks utilized in the different periods, it comes out that these books belonged with the contemporaneous advances of science. This consideration concerns also the receptional thesis presented to Faculty of Medicine during the XIX century.