[Doctor in medicine Juan de la Fuente and the first professor's chair at the Real y Pontificia Universidad de México]. / Juan de la Fuente, primer catedrático de medicina en la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.

In this paper, we analyze Juan de la Fuente's life and work. De la Fuente was a medical doctor with medical studies in Sigüenza and Sevilla, minor Spanish universities at that time. Born in Mallorca, he came to New Spain in 1563 and later, he was the first professor in the new Faculty of Medicine in the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. His life could be considered as an example of a brilliant professional career developed by a Spanish Medical Doctor coming to the New World, in his case to Mexico. Being a doctor in the main Mexican hospitals, and caring for numerous and select patients. Also was selected as visitador and protomédico, important responsibilities in the regulation of medical practice and quality of medicaments. As a cultivated man, he was a typical case of a humanist. He not only was interested in medicine, but also in natural history, dialectics and philosophy, with a good knowledge of Latin, classical literature and so on. He won the first Medicine Cathedral in 1578 and continued in this place until his death.

[A new identity for pharmacists: the Mexican Pharmaceutical Society at the turn of the century (1890-1919)]. / Una nueva identidad para los farmacéuticos: la Sociedad Farmacéutica Mexicana en el cambio de siglo (1890-1919).

The Mexican Pharmaceutical Society was founded in 1871. Pharmacists in this Society organized and supported activities to develop their profession, including the preparation of a Mexican pharmacopela, promotion of the interests of pharmacists and improvement of the profession, and the creation of a unified legal framework for its practice. This society played a central role in the institutionalization of pharmacy as a profession and in the expansion of pharmacists into new areas, especially in relation to the transfer of pharmacy training from the National School of Medicine to the School of Chemical Sciences in 1919. when they took on a new identity as chemists.

Experimentación y Brownismo en México: el Hospital General de San Andrés / Experimentation and Brownism in México - the Hospital General de San Andrés

Tiene como propósito analizar los trabajos del Departamento de Observación del Hospital General de San Andrés de la Ciudad de México, instalado en 1800, donde, en medio de polémicas y controversias, se puso en práctica el brownismo, teoría que por entonces gozaba de gran popularidad tanto en Europa como en América.