Nacimiento de la cirugía española moderna en el siglo xviii

Abstract

At the beginning of the 18th century, both the teaching and the practice of surgery in Spain were in considerable decline. The Navy and the Army had to make use of foreign surgeons. With the founding of the Royal College of Surgery during the second half of the century, solid foundations were laid for the growing development of Spanish surgery over the following centuries. Pedro Virgili is the soul of this profound change, which we can regard as an authentic renaissance of Spanish surgery.