Archival History:

Biography / Administrative history:

Original Reference Number:

Procede de SGU,6551

Name of the creator(s):

Secretaría de Estado y del Despacho de Marina (España)

Name of other related agents:

Archivo General de Simancas (Valladolid, España) - Coleccionista

Scope and Content:

In the second half of the 18th century and following the impulse of the military surgery several colleges of surgery were created in Spain (Barcelona and Cadiz, by doctor Pedro Virgili, in 1729 and 1760; later, Madrid in 1780). In 1790 was founded de College of Surgery of Palma de Mallorca by doctor Francisco Puig, on the basis of the anatomical studies using models both in real scale and pictorical depictions of the different organs, systemas and sections of the human body. This one was proposed to de Secretary of the Army as an example of the teaching methods to use in the College of Surgery of Palma.

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Image accessibility condition:

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Language and Scripts:

Español (Alfabeto latino). 

Description Indices:

Anatomía

Puig, Francesc (1720-1798)

Medium/Archival Material:

Digitized 

Notes:

This document was pre-selected for EUROPEAN DISCOVERIES: FROM THE NEW WORLD TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES, exhibition of the "European Digital Treasures" project, funded by the European Union's Creative Europe Programme.