Spanish influence on progress of medicine

ABSTRACT ON the occasion of the International Congress of the History of Medicine, to be held at Madrid on September 23-29, the Wellcome Research Institution has issued a booklet

illustrating Spain's contribution to medical science from the earliest times down to the discovery of cinchona in the seventeenth century. After alluding to Spanish contacts with former

civilisations such as those of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans and Visigoths, the work deals with the Hispano-Moresque Renaissance, which was remarkable for the foundation of

schools of medicine and pharmacy and the establishment of hospitals, some of which were equipped with large libraries, as well as for the appearance of eminent medical men, including

Albucasis, the author of a great medico-chirurgical treatise which remained the leading textbook until the time of William of Saliceto (1275), Avenzoar, the greatest of the Hispano-Moresque

physicians, and Maimonides, the Hispano-Jewish philosopher and physician, the octocentenary of whose birth has recently been celebrated; During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a

large number of hospitals were founded in different parts of Spain, especially at Barcelona, Granada, Malaga and Madrid. The outstanding medical personalities of the sixteenth century in

Spain were Nicolas Monardes, of Seville, whose private museum of natural objects was one of the earliest, if not the first, in Spain; Francisco Hernandez, physician to Philip II and author

of a monumental work on the natural history of Mexico; and Andres Laguna, physician to Charles V and Pope Julian III and professor at the University of Alcala de Henares, where Cardinal

Ximenes the founder had endowed six professorships of medicine and two of anatomy and surgery. The booklet is illustrated by facsimiles of pages from Spanish medical works, portraits of

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