Carlos Durán Cartín

Carlos Durán Cartín ( born November 12, 1852 in San Jose, † November 23, 1924 ibid ) was from November 7, 1889 to May 8, 1890 President of Costa Rica.

Life

His parents were Ramona Cartín Mora and José Durán Santillana. He married Dolores Quirós Morales, the daughter of Juana Morales y Valverde and José Antonio Quirós y Blanco.

He studied in Britain ( island ) and France graduated with a Dr. into human medicine in the UK. In 1874 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

He worked in the Hospital San Juan de Dios. There he saw Dr. Bruno Carranza Ramírez amputated a leg, and recommended, to numb the patient with chloroform. He led the surgery and had set up an operating room.

He was one of the founders of the Hospicio de Locos which is now called the Hospital Neuropsiquiátrico Chapuí. He sponsored the construction of the Asilo Chapuí. He was co-founder of the nursing school, Escuela de Enfermería de Costa Rica

Presidency

In 1889 he was third deputy to the President. On November 7, 1889 occupied about 7,000 with clubs and machetes Armed Rafael Yglesias Castro under the command, San José and put the presidency of Durán Cartín by. During his tenure, a law for the establishment of a National Theatre was decided and presidential elections conducted, José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledon brought the father of Rafael Yglesias Castro to the presidency. His staff was Licenciado Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno.

1892 made ​​him the Partido Nacional as a delegate for San Jose for a Constituent Assembly with a proposed legislative period 1892-1896. On 1 May 1892 he was elected president of the Constituent Assembly. A few months later, President José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledon dissolved this Parliament.

In 1904, he pointed out the necessity of hygiene in San Jose. He diagnosed anemia, which is caused by hookworms among farmers. He treated them with an anthelmintic and thymol. He had to create sewage treatment plants. As chief administrative officer of the municipality of San José, he had to create a Abwasserkanalisiation.

He was professor of medicine, anatomy and hygiene at the Instituto Nacional de San José. In 1910 he acquired a plot of land 18 km from the Irazu a place Prusia was named and founded on a tuberculosis sanatorium, which has been referred Sanatorio Carlos Duran or Sanatorio de Prusia and was until 1970 occupied about 100 patients.

He recommended blood tests for malaria diagnosis. From 1912 to 1916 he was Member of Parliament for San Jose and presidential candidate of the Partido Nacional in the elections in December 1913. His bill for the establishment of a Ministry of Health found no parliament majority.

He was a member of the Commission from the former president who in 1917 drew up a constitution.