Brief revision of our history beside Argentinean medicine.

About La Prensa Medica Argentina:

Buenos Aires, Wednesday 10th June, 1914, was the place and date when a new South American scientific journal was born. Its aims, as can be read on the cover of the Issue I of year I, was since then "to contribute primarily to stimulate observation and research and to disseminate the scientific knowledge that is renovated each day, throughout the medical class, and secondly, tend to prestige in foreign countries the national and international medical science". The name of the journal since that time to the present day is "La Prensa Médica Argentina" (Argentinean Medical Press). Its first directors were Luis Guemes, Gregorio Aráoz Alfaro and Daniel J. Cranwell distinguished doctors of that time, and its first editor was Dr. Arsenio Guidi Buffarini a prominent book publisher. The journal "La Prensa Medica Argentina" included in its pages, from then to the present, the most important works of our doctors and also selected foreign contributions. To go through its pages covering almost a hundred years of the Argentinean medical press, means to make contact with the most salient events of our country medical history, written by the most notable doctors of the country and with major contributions from prominent foreign-doctors.

Directors of the Journal:

Were our first directors in 1914:

Luis Guemes, Gregorio Aráoz Alfaro and Daniel J. Cranwell

from 1914 till 1926:

Daniel J. Cranwell, Mariano R. Castex and Carlos Bonorino Udaondo

from 1927 till 1934:

Mariano R. Castex, Carlos Bonorino Udaondo and Pedro Chutro

from 1935 till 1947:

Mariano R. Castex, Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Enrique Finochietto and Alberto Peralta Ramos

from 1948 till 1951:

Mariano R. Castex, Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Ricardo Finochietto and Alberto Peralta Ramos

from 1952 till 1954:

Mariano R. Castex, Ricardo Finochietto, Alberto Peralta Ramos and Egidio S. Mazzei

from 1955 till 1957:

Mariano R. Castex, Ricardo Finochietto and Egidio S. Mazzei

from 1958 till 1968:

Mariano R. Castex and Egidio S. Mazzei

from 1969 till 1984:

Egidio S. Mazzei

from 1984 to 2023:

Pablo A. López

from 2023 to date:

Ariel Pablo López

Publishers of the Journal:

Arsenio Guidi Buffarini (1914 to 1943)

Aniceto López (1943 to 1966)

Pablo A. López (1966 to 2007)

Ediciones Ediciones Médicas del Sur S.R.L.(2007 to date)

Ediciones Médicas del Sur S.R.L.:

Society composed by Claudio A. López (Manager), Ariel P. López y Rodrigo J. López (Partners)

   
                 
   

Cover pages of the first issue and the 90th anniversary issue respectivelly.

   
                 
   

Advertisement inluded in the first issue of the journal.