El ejercicio médico en San Sebastián durante el siglo XIX

Placer Galán, Carlos

Publication year:

1992

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-86240-40-4

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Summary

Medical practice in San Sebastian during the XIX century was influenced by different events and characteristics of the town ; its bellicose episodes, its epidemics, its destruction in 1813 and its enlargements in 1864 ; its dominant bourgeosie, its choice as the place for royal summering ; its coastal situation and border and its capital. Most of professionals were of a basque cradle. The town had entitled physician, hospital physicians and pioneer services as: the First-Aid Post and Health and Railway Inspections. The situations of intrusion and class struggle were expressed in the foundation of the professional College. Physicians from San Sebastián took part in the foundation of the Atheneum, in the Bank of San Sebastián and in the first newspapers of the Region.