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For his work as a professor, researcher and doctor at various hospitals, Dr. Monge was recognized and held in distinction by a number of educational and medical institutions. He was decorated with the Order of the Legion of Honor of France; Great
Official of the Order of the Sun in Peru; Commander of
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Monge participated in many international conferences. He was a delegate from Peru to the
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Monge discovered the clinical syndrome of chronic mountain sickness or altitude sickness. He was the first to describe its symptoms and pathogenesis. In 1928 he published the results of his research and that of his collaborators in a book entitled “The
Disease of the Andes”, a valuable contribution
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Monge also was vice president of
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He was also honorary professor of the
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In recognition of his medical work, Monge was elected president of the
National Academy of Medicine from 1933 to 1936; member of the American Society for the advancement of science in 1934 and an honorary member of the Academy of Medicine of Buenos Aires, in 1934.
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in 1904, where he earned his medical degree. He continued his studies at the School of
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Homicultura in 1934 and the
Peruvian government delegate to the organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in Mexico 1947.
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to medical science. In 1929 this condition was named “Monge's Disease” by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Sorbonne.
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