1504 ARNALD OF VILLANOVA, (Arnaldus de Villa Nova; Arnau de Vilanova; Arnaldus Villanovanus; Arnaud de Ville-Neuve; Arnaldo de Villanueva) (1240 – 1311)
Hec sunt opera Arnaldi de Villa noua que in hoc volumine continentur.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10521
1542 LOBERA DE ÁVILA, Luis (1480 – 1551)
Libro de anatomia In: Remedio de cuerpos humanos y silva de experiencias y otras cosas utilissimas: nuevamente compuesto…
Text in Spanish and Latin. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/496
1549 XIMENO, Pedro [Jimeno] (1515 – 1551)
Dialogus de re medica compendiaria ratione, præter quædam alia, universam Anatomen humani corporis perstringens, summè necessarius omnibus Medicinæ canditatis.
The first Spanish medical book based on the writings of Vesalius, written by Vesalius’s student Pedro Jimeno, whose activities “constituted the cornerstone of the Valencian School of Anatomy and the Spanish Vesalian m…
GMN 8931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11109
1551 MONTAÑA DE MONTSERRATE, Bernardino (1480 – 1558)
Libro de la anathomia del hombre.
The first Spanish anatomy book in the Spanish language, the second anatomy book ever published in Spain, and the work that introduced Vesalian illustrations to Spain. The text is a version of Henri de Mondeville’s med…
GMN 378.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/550
1553 MÉNDEZ, Christóbal (1500 – 1553)
Libro de exercicio corporal y de sus provechos, por el qual cada uno podra entender que exercicio le sea necessario para conservar su salud.
The first separate book on exercise by a physician. Facsimile with English translation by Francisco Guerra as Book of bodily exercise, edited by Frederick G. Kilgour (New Haven: E. Licht, 1960).
GMN 4478.99 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8869
1556 VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan (1525 – 1587)
Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano…
Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano Spanish physician Juan Valverde de Amusco was issued in Rome at the press of Antonio Salamanca. This was the first great original medical book in Spanish and the most origi…
GMN 378.02 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/551
1567 ARIAS DE BENEVIDES, Pedro (1505 – )
Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.
Arias de Benevides travelled to the New World where he observed native remedies and reported them in this book. In the book he also described his performance in Mexico City (1561) of the first neurosurgical interventi…
GMN 9053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11232
1570 MARTINEZ DE CASTRILLO, Francisco (1520 – 1585)
El Tratado breve y compendioso sobre la maravillosa obra de la boca y dentadura.
Martinez de Castrillo's second book on dentistry was based on richer clinical and therapeutic experience, and had a great influence in Spain for almost a century. It was partially copied or summarized by doctors, surg…
GMN 12610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14850
1575 HUARTE Y NAVARRO, Juan [HUARTE DE SAN JUAN] (1529 – 1588)
Examen de ingenios para las ciencias.
Huarte was a distinguished Spanish physician and psychologist. His Examen, which gained for him a European reputation, was the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology. English translatio…
GMN 4964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6362
1578 ACOSTA, Cristóbal [Cristóvão da Costa; Christophorus Acosta Africanus] (1540 – 1599)
Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al bivo.
This is mainly a translation of Garcia d’Orta’s Coloquios (No. 1815) with the addition of some illustrations. Acosta, a Portuguese Jesuit physician and surgeon, travelled to India where he met Garcia d’Orta. Acosta pi…
GMN 1819 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2084
1598 PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Cristóbal (1558 – 1620)
Discvrsos del amparo de los legitimos pobres.
A plan for a state-funded public health system and poor relief program. An emblem introduces each of the ten essays, which treat hospital sanitation and kitchen gardens, care of disabled veterans, prisoners and the in…
GMN 10727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12921
1598 PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Christóbal (1588 – 1620)
Discursos del amparo de los legitimos pobres y reduccion de los fingidos, y de la fundacion y principio de los albergues destos Reynos, y amparo de la milicia dellos.
In this rather utopian work with emblematic illustrations Pérez presented a plan for a state funded public health system and poor relief program. His ten essays concerned hospital sanitation, kitchen gardens, care of …
GMN 12829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15075
1623 DAZA DE VALDÉS, Benito (1591 – 1634)
Uso del los antojos para todo genero de vistas, en que se enseña a conocer los grados que a cada uno le faltan de su vista, y los que tienen qualesquier antojos.
The earliest scientific work dealing with spectacles. It includes sight testing tables and points out the value of convex lenses after cataract operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Eng…
GMN 5821 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7039
1666 PÉREZ FADRIQUE, Juan Eulogio
Modo practico de embalsamar cuerpos defunctos, para preservarlos incorruptos....
On embalming corpses, and on human cadavers. This work includes (pp. 98-127) instructions for the embalming process in Spain, with woodcut illustrations of the tools used and recipes for the ointments. The author also…
GMN 13899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16191
1685 GARCÍA CONDÉ, Pedro (1603 – )
Verdadera albeyteria. Divido en quatro libros....Lleva diferentes estampas, donde vàn delineadas las enfermedades que sobrevienen en el cuerpo, braços, y piernas del cavallo....
Includes both anatomical engravings and engraving that relate to astrological influences. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12379
1739 CERVI, José (1663 – 1748); RODRÍGUEZ, Miguel Francisco
Pharmacopoeia Matritensis, Regii, ac Supremi Hispaniarum protomedicatus auctoritate, jussu atque auspiciis nunc primum elaborata.
The first national pharmacopoeia issued in Spain, also controlling drug preparation and use for the Spanish empire. It included botanical, mineral and animal substances, and substances obtained from the Spanish empire…
GMN 11613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13813
1741 –1751 RODRÍGUEZ, Antonio José (1709 – 1781)
Nuevo aspecto de theologia medico-moral y ambos derechos, ó paradoxas phisico-theologico-legales. 3 vols.
Rodríguez, a self-taught Cistercian monk, dealt with issues in medical ethics in this manual for confessors.
GMN 10344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12536
1751 CLEGHORN, George (1716 – 1789)
Observations on the epidemical diseases in Minorca. From the year 1744 to 1749.
Cleghorn left a good account of several diseases and conditions not previously observed, among them epidemic jaundice. He included accounts of many post-mortems. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2332
1758 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); LÖFLING, Pehr (1729 – 1756)
Petri Loefling... Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America förrättad infrän år 1751 til år, 1756, med Beskrifningar och ron öfver de märkvärdigaste växyer, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus.
Edited by Carl Linnaeus after the early death of Pehr Löfling, who Linnaeus considered his most gifted disciple. This is the account of Löfling's mostly botanically oriented researches through Spain, Portugal, and nor…
GMN 13545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15822
1762 CASAL JULIÁN, Gaspar (1680 – 1759)
Historia natural, y medica de el Principado de Asturias.
The first recognizable description of pellagra is included on pp. 327-60 of this book, which was written in 1735 but not published until 1762, after the writer’s death. He called the disease mal de la rosa. Reprinted,…
GMN 1771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3318
1784 MASDEVALL, Josep (José)
Dictamen del mismo doctor Don Joseph Masdevall dado de órden del rey sobre Si las fábricas de algodon y lana son perniciosas ó no á la salud pública de las ciudades donde están establecidas. IN: Relacion de las epidemias de calenturas putridas y malignas....
Digital facsimile of Masdevall's work on occupational medicine from helvia.uco.es at this link. Digital facsimile of the complete epidemiological work from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12677
1789 CANIVELL, Francisco (1721 – 1797)
Tratado de las heridas de armas de fuego, dispuesto para uso de los alumnos del Real Colegio de Chirugia de Cadiz.
Probably the first significant work on military medicine by a Spanish physician. Canivell’s work, prepared for the use of students at Cadiz’s Royal College of Surgery, deals with contusions, wounds and fractures cause…
GMN 13134 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15392
1799 PÉREZ ARROYO, Félix (1755 – 1809)
Tratado de las operaciones que deben practicarse en la dentadura y método para conservarla en buen estado, recopilado de los mejores autores, y adornado con láminas que manifiestan la diferencia, forma y figura de los instrumentos necesarios para dichas operaciones.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11738
1802 VILLALBA, Joaquín de (1752 – 1807)
Epidemiologia española o historia cronológica de las pestes, contagios, epidemias y epizootias que han acaecido en España: Desde la venida de los cartagineses hasta el año 1801.... 2 vols.
A chronological history of epidemics (plagues, contagions and epizootics) occurring in Spain to the end of the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 1676 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2341
1815 MACGRIGOR, Sir James (1771 – 1858)
Sketch of the medical history of the British Armies in the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, during the late campaigns.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13001
1820 PARISET, Étienne (1770 – 1847); MAZET, André (1793 – 1821)
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 par MM. Pariset et Mazet, docteurs en médecine de la Faculté de Paris, et rédigées par M. Pariset.
Pariset and Mazet distinguished themselves combating an outbreak of yellow fever in Spain. Pariset's colleague was apparently not involved with publication of the book, and died in a yellow fever outbreak in Barcelona…
GMN 8948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11127
1841 –1846 CHINCHILLA Y PIQUERAS, Anastasio (1801 – 1867)
Anales históricos de la medicina en general, y biografico-bibliográficos de la española en particular. 8 vols.
Includes No. 6576, together with Historia particular de las operaciones quirúrgicas, 1841; Historia general de la medicina, 2 vols. 1841-43; and Vade mecum histórico y bibliográfico, etc., 1844. Facsimile reproduction…
GMN 6575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8286
1841 –1846 CHINCHILLA Y PIQUERAS, Anastasio (1801 – 1867)
Historia de la medicina española. 4 vols.
Forms Vols. 3-6 of No. 6575.
GMN 6576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8287
1842 –1852 HERNÁNDEZ MOREJÓN, Antonio (1773 – 1836)
Historia bibliográfica de la medicina española. 7 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6576.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8288
1853 FRANCIS, D. J. T.
Change of climate considered as a remedy in dyspetic, pulmonary, and other chronic affections; with an account of the most eligible places of residence for invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, etc., at different seasons of the year; and an appendix on the mineral springs of the Pyrenees, Vichy, and Aix les Bains.
The author, a pulmonary specialist at Cavendish Square, London, provides a detailed manual for invalid travellers, seeking cures for tuberculosis, and indigestion and "nervous affections." It may be one of the first t…
GMN 10235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12425
1871 –1880 OLAVIDE Y LANDAZÁBAL, José Eugenio de (1836 – 1901)
Dermatología general y clínica iconográfica de enfermedades de la piel ó dermatósis.
This very large format publication was issued in four parts from 1871 to 1880. It included 168 large plates in the style of Alibert, and was the first major illustrated work on dermatology published in Spain. Digital …
GMN 12583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14822
1872 VILANOVA Y PIERA, Juan (1821 – 1893)
Origen, naturaleza y antigüedad del hombre.
The first book on human origins or human evolution published in Spanish. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9781
1880 GINÉ Y PARTAGÁS, Juan (1836 – 1903)
Tratado clinico iconografico de dermatologia quirurgica.
The first medical text in Spanish to use photographs as illustrations. Includes 17 lithographed plates (12 chromolithographs) and 3 original photographs (2 hand-colored). Giné y Partagás was a surgeon, dermatologist, …
GMN 6874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9038
1880 SANZ DE SAUTUOLA, Marcelino [Marcelino DE SAUTUOLA] (1831 – 1888)
Breves apuntes sobre algunos objetos prehistóricos de la provincia de Santander
Privately printed pamphlet asserting the prehistoric origin of cave paintings discovered in the cave of Altamira, Cantabria, Spain by Maria Sanz de Sautuola, daughter of the author. These were first prehistoric cave p…
GMN 7287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9457
1908 COMMENGE Y FERRER, Luis (1854 – 1916)
La medicina en Cataluña (bosquejo histórico).
GMN 6578 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8292
1921 GARCIA DEL REAL Y ÁLVAREZ DE MIJARES, Eduardo (1870 – 1947)
Historia de la medicina en España.
GMN 6579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8295
1927 GAY PRIETO, José Antonio (1905 – 1979)
Contribución al estudio de la linfogranulomatosis inguinal subaguda o ulcera venérea adenógena de Nicolás y Favre.
Gay Prieto was the first actually to see the infective agent of lymphogranuloma venereum.
GMN 5219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7830
1933 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165)
(Al-morchid fi'l-kohhl) ou, Le guide d'oculistique: Ouvrage inédit de l'oculiste arabe-espagnol, Mohammad ibn Qassoum ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi (XIIe siècle); traduction des parties ophtalmologiques d’après le manuscrit conservé à la bibliothèque de l’Escurial par Max Meyerhof.
GMN 5815.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7012
1934 MADRID, Academia Nacional de Medicina
Catálogo de las obras y documentos raros y curiosos de su libreria que figuran en la exposicion abierta para conmemorar el II centenario de su fundacion, 1734-1934.
Lists 198 books and manuscripts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the collection of the National Academy of Medicine in Madrid.
GMN 9066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11245
1938 TRUETA I RASPALL, Josep (1897 – 1977)
El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…
GMN 4435.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6303
1939 DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908); RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945)
Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.
GMN 8527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10704
1963 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010); SONNEDECKER, Glenn A.
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
GMN 7413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9585
1965 –1966 GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014)
Bibliográfia história de la medicina española. 2 vols.
A bibliography covering Spain and the former South American colonies.
GMN 6579.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8299
1965 GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014)
Historia de la pediatría española.
GMN 7860 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10032
1967 GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014)
Médicos españoles.
GMN 6742.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7887
1971 SERRANO VICÉNS, Ramón (1908 – 1978)
La sexualidad femenina. Una investigación estadística.
"Between 1932 and 1961 Serrano Vicéns systematically studied the sexuality of 1417 women who went through his surgery. With that data, he wrote a book entitled "Female sexuality. A statistical investigation " that rem…
GMN 10845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13041
1973 PETRUS HISPANUS, Pope John XXI (Pedro Hispano; Peter of Spain) (1226 – 1277); DA ROCHA PEREIRA, Maria Helena Monteiro (1925 – 2017)
Obras médicas de Pedro Hispano. Edited by Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira.
GMN 8878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11056
1973 PALAU CLAVERAS, Agustín
Bibliografia hispanica de veterinaria y equitacion anterior a 1901. Ordenada, comentada en algunos epigrafes y dividida en tres partes. I: Repertorio cronologico: Tratados. II: Repertorio cronologico: Textos legales. III: Indices.
GMN 10159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12348
1975 ARNALD OF VILLANOVA, (Arnaldus de Villa Nova; Arnau de Vilanova; Arnaldus Villanovanus; Arnaud de Ville-Neuve; Arnaldo de Villanueva) (1240 – 1311); MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ); PANIAGUA, Juan Antonio; GARCÍA-BALLESTER, Luis; ET AL
Opera medica omnia edenda curaverunt L. García-Ballester, J. A. Paniagua et M. R. McVaugh.
This is the first scholarly, critical edition of the collected works of Arnau de Vilanova. When I wrote this entry in December 2016 the ongoing editing publishing project was up to 17 vols. in 20, offered at the Unive…
GMN 8255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10431
1978 SERRANO VICÉNS, Ramón (1908 – 1978)
Informe sexual de la mujer española.
GMN 10846 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13042
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