Médicos militares ilustres del Renacimiento
- Ramón SOTO MÉNDEZ 1
- PONTE HERNANDO, Fernando J. 1
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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ISSN: 0482-5748
Ano de publicación: 2023
Título do exemplar: Historia de la Sanidad Militar de campaña española
Número: 2
Páxinas: 17-54
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Revista de historia militar
Resumo
In the Spanish Renaissance, two illustrious military surgeons-doctors stood out, Dionisio Daza Chacón and Cristóbal Pérez de Herrera. Dr. Daza Chacón, although he had a medical training, he considered himself above all a surgeon. He was at the service of Emperor Charles V, accompanying the Flanders tercios in different war actions, in which, despite his youth, he had to heal many wars wounded, and even soldiers suffering plague. He also acted as a military surgeon in the battle of Lepanto, under the command of Don Juan of Austria. After thirty-seven years of service as a military surgeon, his experience was captured in a compendium that he wrote in Spanish to facilitate learning surgery. Dr. Pérez de Herrera, descendant of a military family, was another eminent military doctor, who not only manifested his professionalism in the care of the sick and wounded in war, but also took up arms, and proved to be a good strategist, when conditions required it. At the end of his medical training, he was chosen as an examiner for the Protomedicato, an exam necessary to practice the medical profession. Later, he was appointed by King Philip II Protomedic of the galleys of Spain, participating in multiple expeditions, including his participation in the expedition led by D. Álvaro de Bazán for the conquest of the Azores Islands. After his eventful military life, a great interest arose in him for the protection of poor people, the creation of shelters for their care, and for the protection of military, who after fighting and being wounded on battlefields were abandoned to their fate.
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