Cayetano Heredia was born in Catacaos (Piura) on August 5, 1797 . He is the natural son of Manuela Heredia and “of an unknown father”, as he points out in his will, in which he states that he was born in the city of Trujillo. Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán registers him as the legitimate son of Don Pablo Heredia and Manuela Sánchez. He studied at the Colegio del Príncipe, where he learned Latin. At age 15 he entered the College of Medicine, highly prestigious at the time, graduating in 1826. The following year he was appointed surgeon at the Santa Ana hospital, working with Francisco Fuentes, Army Surgeon Major. In 1834 he was appointed inspector general of hospitals and rector of the College of Medicine, the latter position he held until 1839, and then from 1842 to 1856. He turned the college into a faculty, centralizing the teaching and control of the medical profession under French molds , established cabinets and laboratories, hired teachers from abroad and sent the most outstanding students to perfect themselves outside of Peru. In 1843 he was named protomédico and, thanks to the favorable climate that he found under the government of Ramón Castilla, he reorganized medical studies including new subjects.
Together with doctors Miguel Evaristo de los Ríos, Camilo Segura and Julián Sandoval, he joined the commission to prepare the organic regulations of the Lima Faculty of Medicine , officially inaugurated on October 6, 1856 in the old premises of Plaza Santa Ana and of which its first dean is appointed. Doctors José Casimiro Ulloa, Antonio Raimondi, José Eboli, José M. Macedo, Manuel Odriozola, José Pro, Francisco Rosas, Mariano Arosemena Quesada, Rafael Benavides, José Bustillos Concha, José Jacinto Corpacho, Julián Sandoval and Camilo Segura; all committed to spreading Comtian positivism, Bernard's experimental physiology and Virchow's cell doctrine.
In April 1860, upon completing the legal period of his mandate, he was replaced in office by Evaristo de los Ríos. In August of that year the students, by unanimous decision, placed an oil portrait of the great doctor in the faculty. Heredia felt ill and retired to a modest ranch in Miraflores. He testified in that place on March 22, 1861 before the notary José de Selaya, declaring that he had a natural son named José María Heredia, 17 years old, a medical student whom he named heir to his assets, warning that he could only receive them after graduating as medical.
He died on June 10, 1861 and his funeral was held in the temple of San Francisco , with the assistance of the body of professors and students of the Faculty of Medicine. In recognition of his work, a university that trains doctors and related branches bears his name in the city of Lima, and a hospital in Piura reminds new generations of the value of such an illustrious ancestor.
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