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Abstract
In the collective memory of the Peruvians of the present, the name of the Hospital
Order of the Betlemites is practically forgotten. However, when reading the
Peruvian Traditions of Ricardo Palma, the name of that religious institution that
remained in Peru for almost three hundred years, resurfaces with new vigor to
open the panorama of an interesting time in the history of medicine and the health
of our ancestors. Along with this historical vision, comes also the literary part,
which is born from the ingenious pen of Palma, when telling us about characters,
customs and facts of a Lima that no longer exists. This communication will try to
explain many of the aspects that need to be known in order to better understand the
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tradition: “The Barbones”, and with this, to revalue the role of a diligent historian
and an ingenious writer who was the father of the Peruvian Traditions.
4 Las payas (sic) son también mencionadas en la tradición “La Casa de Francisco
Pizarro”. Víd. Palma, 1957, p. 36.
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