| Ramón Emeterio Betances’ Optometry Set | |
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Origin |
Ramón Emeterio Betances |
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Type |
Optometry Lenses Set |
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Effects |
Magnifies desire for independence and freedom |
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Downsides |
Causes tropical diseases when they leave their home region |
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Activation |
Medical Exam |
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Collected by |
Warehouse |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
May 26, 1922 |
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Origin[]
Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán (April 8, 1827 – September 16, 1898) was a Puerto Rican independence advocate and medical doctor. He was the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolt and designer of the Grito de Lares flag. Since the Grito galvanized a burgeoning nationalist movement among Puerto Ricans, Betances is also considered to be the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement. His charitable deeds for people in need, earned him the moniker of El Padre de los Pobres (The Father of the Poor).
Betances was also a medical doctor and surgeon in Puerto Rico, and one of its first social hygienists. He had established a successful surgery and ophthalmology practice. Betances was also an abolitionist, diplomat, public health administrator, poet, and novelist. He served as representative and contact for Cuba and the Dominican Republic in Paris.
Betances returned to Puerto Rico in April 1856. At the time, a cholera epidemic was spreading across the island. The epidemic made its way to Puerto Rico's western coast in July 1856, and hit the city of Mayagüez particularly hard. Betances was one of five doctors that would have to take care of 24,000 residents. Betances had the city's unsanitary slave barracks torched and a temporary camp set up for its dwellers. A large field at a corner of the city was set aside for a supplementary cemetery, and Betances set and managed a temporary hospital next to it. At the time, he had his first confrontation with Spanish authorities, since Betances gave last priority of medical treatment to those Spanish-born military rank and officers who were affected by the disease (they demanded preferential and immediate treatment, and he openly despised them for it).
Effects[]
Patients and practitioners will experience heightened desires for national independence and personal freedom from oppression. This applies strongly to peoples without self-autonomy or lacking representative government. Sickens victims with transmissible, tropical diseases such as cholera and malaria when they leave their native area or home. Not reversible by returning back, requires medical treatment.