History of Latin American Dermatology

THE INDIANS OFURUGUAY AND THEIRRELATIONSHIPWITH DERMATOLOGYROBERTO RAMPOLDI BESTARDIntroducción■ IntroductionUruguay and the River PlateExperienced their savage spring...It is the Charrúa raceOf which only the nameHas been retained by the waves and the forestsSo it will evoke the soul of a poemA name that still reproducesThe faraway storm, which approachesForming the beacons of the lightningWith the heavy, ashen clouds.It is the indomitable raceWhich in this land fosteredFatherland of loves and glories,Which leans against the Uruguay and Plate rivers;The Fatherland, whose nameIs a song in the poet’s harp,A shout in the heart, a light in the dawn,Fire in the mind and in the heavens a star...... Down fell the flower into the river.The tremulous concentric circlesSet the green water hyacinths swayingAnd, in the silence of reed patch, died...(J. Zorrilla de San Martín: Tabaré 1 )Like those concentric circles that die in the arms of the reed patch, it was attemptedto annihilate a race; the conquest was successful and colonization total: political, cultural389