Escuela de medicina informe de una comisión

Abstract

The image contains news about how potato crops become the Creole potatoes which are less resistant to the disease, on the other hand the Tuquerraña potatoes are the ones that get sick the least, resist the most and produce much more in their crops. , having as an influence the land in which they are cultivated, the dry, sandy and less fertilized lands are those in which the disease causes the least damage. There are 4 types of appearance compared to cultivated potatoes, appearances 1 and 2 being the preferred potatoes for sale and consumption and those with appearance 3 and 4, which are commonly discarded due to obvious deterioration and their condition due to disease, but despite having a good appearance, category 1 are becoming sick. and they can come directly from a diseased plant, he tells us about how in his field called Estanzuela, over the years potato crops have been lost, in addition to telling us about how they are laborers of the pillory and the prosecutor's office who serve to harvest the wheat, they are people who must maintain between 40 and 50 days, the meals of these people have been the potatoes of aspect 2 that were collected from their own field that come from diseased fields, he tells us that he feeds these workers with the most damaged potatoes of aspect 2 and the only problem was with an Indian who suffered from typhoid who managed to be cured and during these months he along with other families have begun to consume these potatoes in different preparations for lunch and dinner, he has not noticed any illness, the consumption of the Potatoes are not harmful to health. News published in Cundinamarqués Nº175 Page 118, August 4, 1865.