Medicine in the era of independence and medical care reigned a healthy optimism. So, despite the great economic constraints that had characterized the previous decades, the obstacles were being overcome one by one.
Medicine in the time of independence
In those days, the dream of providing the country with a medical system equipped with a network of good hospitals, research institutes and medical schools with up-to-date teaching and, at the same time, focused on needs was materializing. specific country and its inhabitants.
According to the historian Lucas Alamán, at that time the medical profession was little appreciated, perhaps because of the much work and the little gains.
In fact, the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine were awarded on October 11 of that year to a single candidate: Don Manuel de Jesús Febles i Valdés. Such degrees had been conferred on Don Manuel Flores and Heras in 1809 and were not granted to anyone in 1810 and 1811.
Medicine in the time of independence; They were the first insurgent doctors! Did you know them?
In the beginnings of the insurgent movement, the doctor José Camaño, Who practiced medicine first in San Luis Potosí and then in Guanajuato. It was gotten up to the forces of Hidalgo father during his stay in this last city, from the 28 of September to the 24 of November of 1810.
In the same period it is mentioned in José Mariano Figueroa, 21 years old, born in San Andrés Tuxtla and practicing surgery in Mexico City
Surgeons & Fighters …
Several members of the hospital congregations acted as surgeons and also fought fearlessly among the patriots. Thus the lay Juanino fray Luis de Herrera, that was united to the rebellious army when this one happened through Celaya and was
appointed first surgeon.
We also know that in the middle of the 19th century, some thirty years after independence. The Mexican capital had approximately 200,000 inhabitants.
There were then 110 surgeons, 5 internists, 17 surgeons, 6 dentists and 34 pharmacists, as well as 410 lawyers, 14 architects, 7 qualified civil engineers and 8 patent surveyors.
The formation of medicine vis-à-vis the state
On the eve of the last stage of the independence struggle (1820), the surgeon Joan de Déu Linares it acted as a liaison between José Cristóbal Villaseñor, a resident of San Miguel the Great, and the lawyer Azcárate and other residents of the capital, all supporters of emancipation.
That same year the illustrious doctor was imprisoned in Cort Casimiro Liceaga, together with the emancipatory movement in which several relatives of his militated.
But it managed to escape to the six months to return later to the metropolis to the rows of the trigarante army. Liceaga had obtained a bachelor’s degree in medicine in 1812, a bachelor’s degree in 1818 and a doctorate in 1819, the year in which I held the chair of Medicine Premium.
It returned to the university cloister in 1824 occupying the chair of Medicine Vespers, to become in 1833 the first director of the “Establishment of Medical Sciences”, position in which had to remain 13 years. He was co-founder of the first Academy of Medicine of Mexico.
Insurgent doctors and surgeons Alfredo de Micheli-Serra.
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