The it uncertainty and mistrust towards the presence and activities of academic medical practitioners in Mexico City during the Porfirio Díaz government towards (1877-1911) convinced these professionals that is was essential to create, strengthen and transmit a respectable, competent and homogeneous image of history. the profession. To this purpose they recovered, recreated and adapted the ethical maxims of the occidental medical culture to their that professional work, and rescued eminent medical figures of Mexico's convulse nineteenth century from being lost in the oblivion of history.century Their goal - as it will be expounded in the following pages - was to respond, oppose and neutralize the the criticism and disbelief expressed by the public against their professional performance.

Health Revolution, education and propaganda acquired importance during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Mexico City, as physicians, hygienists, and propaganda schoolteachers attempted to teach the principles of public health to a culturally and socially heterogeneous urban population. I explore the phase organization of the Popular Hygiene Exhibition of 1910 and the importance of health education before and after the armed phase hygienists, of the Mexican Revolution, and why children and the indigenous populations became the main recipients of health education programs.(Am before J Public Health. 2006;96:52-61).