[The beginnings of public health studies in Renaissance Spain]. / Los orígenes de los estudios sobre la salud pública en la España Renacentista.

A very brief synthesis is provided of the findings of the historical research the author first began more than forty years ago as to the initial beginnings of the studies on public health in Renaissance Spain. The role played by royal power from the standpoint of the beginnings of the modern State, the influence of Hippocratic environmentalism, keeping up cleanliness-related privileges at the personal level, the first beginnings of hygiene on a widespread basis in related to the plague epidemics and the contributions to medical care conditioned by the change in poverty-related values are discussed in turn.

Los orígenes de los estudios sobre la salud pública en la España renacentista / The beginnings of Public Heath Studies in Renaissance Spain

Se sintetizan muy brevemente los resultados de las investigaciones históricas que el autor inició hace más de cuatro décadas sobre los orígenes de los estudios en torno a la salud pública en la España renacentista. Sucesivamente se considera la función desempeñada por el poder real, desde la perspectiva de los orígenes del Estado moderno, la influencia del ambientalismo hipocrático, el mantenimiento para privilegiados de la higiene a nivel individual, los inicios de la higiene colectiva en relación con las epidemias de peste y las aportaciones sobre la asistencia médica condicionadas por el cambio de valores acerca de la pobreza

A very brief synthesis is provided of the findings of the historical research the author first began more than forty years ago as to the initial beginnings of the studies on public health in Renaissance Spain. The role played by royal power from the standpoint of the beginnings of the modern State, the influence of Hippocratic environmentalism, keeping up cleanliness-related privileges at the personal level, the first beginnings of hygiene on a widespread basis in related to the plague epidemics and the contributions to medical care conditioned by the change in poverty-related values are discussed in turn

[Gaspar Casal: ecological description of pellagra, the leading deficiency disease]. / Gaspar Casal: descripción ecológica de la pelagra, primera enfermedad carencial.

The third in a series of highlights from public health classics in Spain features Gaspar Casal (1680-1759), who discovered pellagra, the leading deficiency disease, in nosological terms, in his surrounding environment.

[Francisco Gavaldá, ahead of his time in the social statistics study of bubonic plague (1679)]. / Francisco Gavaldá, adelantado en el estudio social y estadístico sobre la peste (1679).

In 1651, Francisco Gavaldá (1618-1686) authored the first social statistics study on the bubonic plague which scourged western Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. specifically the plague having racked Valencia in 1647. Gavaldá was, in fact the first to study the plague not only statistically, but also from a social standpoint, denouncing the fact that it especially affected the poor, totally independently of the interests of the powerful.

Francisco Gavaldá, adelantado en el estudio social y estadístico sobre la peste (1679) / No disponible

Francisco Gavaldá (1618-1686) fue el autor en 1651 del primer estudio social y estadístico sobre la peste que sufrió la Europa occidental durante los años centrales del siglo XVII, concretamente la de Valencia en 1647. Fue, en efecto, el primero que la estudió, no sólo estadísticamente, sino también desde una perspectiva social, denunciando que afectaba sobre todo a los pobres, con total independencia de los intereses de los poderosos

In 1651, Francisco Gavaldá (1618-1686) authored the first social statistics study on the bubonic plague which scourged western Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, specifically the plague having racked Valencia in 1647. Gavaldá was, in fact the first to study the plague not only statistically, but also from a social standpoint, denouncing the fact that it especially affected the poor, totally independently of the interests of the powerful

Gaspar Casal: descripción ecológica de la pelagra, primera enfermedad carencial / Gaspar Casal: ecological description of pellagra, the leading deficiency disease

Tercera de una serie de notas sobre clásicos de la salud pública enEspaña. Se refiere a Gaspar Casal (1680-1759), que describió lapelagra, primera entidad nosológica carencial, en sus condicionesambientales

The third in a series of highlights from public health classics inSpain features Gaspar Casal (1680-1759), who discovered pellagra,the leading deficiency disease, in nosological terms, in his surroundingenvironment