Título
Reflexiones sobre una pequeña figurilla Olmeca de jade. /
A small jade figure from the Olmecan culture
Autor
MARCELA BEATRIZ VELA AMIEVA
Nivel de Acceso
Acceso Abierto
Materias
MEDICINA Y CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD - (CTI) Hipotiroidismo congénito - Historia - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Historia antigua - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Indios de Norte América - Historia - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Medicina en el arte - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Congenital Hypothyroidism - Hhistory - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) History, ancient - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Indians, North American - History - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Medicine in art - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Sculpture - History - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Arte Olmeca - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Hipotiroidismo congénito - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Retraso mental - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Tamiz neonatal - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Olmec art - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Congenital hypothyroidism - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Mental retardation - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89]) Neonatal screening - ([Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89])
Resumen o descripción
In this paper some reflections motivated by a prehispanic Olmec stone sculpture that was found in the Mexican state of Veracruz by 1940, are presented. This small figure of the prehispanic art, could be the representation, this is "a portrait", of a person with similar features to those present in patients with congenital hypothyroidism. This features include short stature, coarse face, eyelid edema and expression of the mental retardation, so this would be one more example of the acute clinical observation of ancient Mexicans and maybe a testimony of a continuous prevalence from remote times until nowadays of a defect that put a lot of human beings in great disadvantage, disability that has almost disappear thanks to neonatal screening
Editor
Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Fecha de publicación
2003
Tipo de publicación
Artículo
Recurso de información
Formato
application/pdf
Fuente
Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89
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Español
Repositorio Orígen
Repositorio del Instituto Nacional de Pediatría
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