Autor(es): Jesús Guzmán Urióstegui
Resumen:
Abstract: Rafael Juan Meraulyok, a Swiss dentist, arrived in Mexico City in September 1879. Flamboyant and garrulous, he began to pull teeth free of charge in Seminar Square, beside the Cathedral, While selling miraculous products such as elixirs of life that cured all ills. This activity generated the mistrust of doctors in the capital, who accused him of fraud and immediately asked the government to ban this type of work. The ban by the authorities started the controversy surrounding the need to regulate the constitutional principle of freedom of professions. The purpose of this work is to identify the conditions in which this debate took place and the various positions for and against it.