[Revista Médica de Chile. 100 years ago].

France celebrated the first centennial of the French Revolution. Sixty nine international meetings took place, 24 of them dealing with medical or public health problems. The Chilean Commission for the Paris Universal Exhibit asked Dr Adolfo Murillo to write an account (460 pages) of public health conditions in Chile. Main epidemics at that time (smallpox, tuberculosis, dysentery, venereal diseases, typhoid fever and typhus are described.