Popular Medicine (Curism)

Abstract

We have followed 500 outpatients from "Hospital San Rafael" of the country of Itagui. We found that sixty percent of the patients {660/o} had been assisted by their own mothers or pharmacists or had been using symptomatic auto-medication, including analgesics as preferential drugs. Herbal or crude vegetal drugs are still important for our folks and its use is quite extended specially against diarrheas which constitute the first cause of morbimortality in the third world countries. The primary prevention of disease will have to include the adequate education of mothers and pharmacists as a positive goal toward a correct primary assistance.