NEW ONOMASTIC COMPENDIUM OF MEDICINE IN AGUASCALIENTES, 1600-1900

In this work, revised, corrected and augmented, we present, in alphabetical order, 296 characters that we identified directly or indirectly, either in archives, quotations in books and other sources, in the exercise of their skills and knowledge in the field of health care problems of people in the state of Aguascalientes, from 1600 to 1900. They are, then, the initiators of medical care from the establishment of the town of Villa de Nuestra Señora de la Ascención de las Aguas Calientes in the year 1575.

Each person has an identification that indicates how he acted in the field of health, followed by extreme dates that refer to the date of birth of the same or the first date in which he is mentioned in some text or document, together with the date of death or the last date in which he is identified and, finally, the geographic place in which he worked.

This work serves as a modest tribute to the memory of this group of pioneers in the medical practice in Aguascalientes; in recognition of the late Professor Alejandro Topete del Valle, precursor of medical historiography in the state, and as a stimulus to continue the rescue of the regional past in the field of care for the health problems of its inhabitants; that gives us roots, identity and proud belonging to this rewarding and sometimes hazardous struggle in the long task of the local Hippocratic practice.