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Show 192 as a person of superior skills in comparison to the latter. In the constant flux of ideas being accepted and rejected, new practices, which already include scientific terminology and apparently modern application, continue to be adjusted to the patterns of old magical thinking. But the difference between rural and urban popular medicine is marked by the phenomenon of greater acceptability of ideas in the city, although tempered by empiricism, ideas which do not get unified or converted to traditional ones, and the strong belief as well in the urban center in the magical skills of any recommendation coming from a person considered to be a specialist, whether curandero, doctor, nurse, or pharmacist. 1966 Sotelo Mateo, Manuel, "El Problema de la Desnutricion y las Epidemias Infantiles en la Comunidad Andina de Pallasca," America Indigena, XXVI, No. 1 (January, 1966), pp. 87-93. English summary: The great number and the fatal consequences of the epidemics that have occurred in the Andean community of the Peruvian district of Pallasca has caused the Indian group to be described as the people of the children's plagues. In this article the sanitary problem is presented, noting its principal causes: backward agricultural techniques, the scarcity of water for irrigation, the isolation and low income of the population, the low productiveness of agricultural work and the lack of nutritional and sanitary education. The author proposes two types of measures tending toward solution of the malnutrition problem: one, that of transitory solutions like the establishment of a medical post and the functioning of a school cafeteria that would serve to immediately supply means to combat outbreaks of epidemics and child malnutrition. The other, that of permanent solutions that, over a long term but with lasting effects, would provide the farmers with the education and necessary training to raise their living standard, improve their hygiene and diet. The measures included in the second type of solutions are: agricultural education, tending to teach the community how to make good use of the land and its products: governmental intervention through a community development plan, which would include teaching of illiterates, improvement of the family living quarters, supplying of education in hygiene and sanitary services, etc.; improvement of the irrigation system that would allow for a rational use of the existing hydraulic resources; the ending of isolation, uniting the village of Pallasca with the road that leads to the railway terminal in the mining center of Galagada by means of a road 18 kms. long and the granting of sufficient |