Garcia Jove y Capelon, José Ignacio (d. 1823)

Formulario de los Medicos ditado p[o]r Dn. Joseph Ignacio García, y Jove Dr. y M[aest]ro y precidente del R[ea]l Tribunal del Proto-medicato de esta Ciudad Mexicana. Produced in Mexico. Further receipts added in other hands, the last dated 1838. Index of symptoms, pp. 223-226. Primarily receipts drawn from the European pharmocopoeias; a few include indigenous materials, e.g. pulque, aguamiel de maguey.

c.1795-1838

Pp. 226. 15 x 10.5 cm. Original limp leather binding, in modern slip-case.

Purchased 1962.

García Jove was President of the Protomedicato throughout the revolutionary era from 1795 until his death.

At Wellcome Collection: see Garcia Jove y Capelon's formal application for a university post (Collection: Request EPB American; Shelfmark: M.59) and its catalogue description in Robin Price, 'An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine' (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.