Zacatecas: Hospital de Nuestra Señora de la Veracruz

[Begins:] En la Ciudad de Mexico, en quatro dias, del mes de Diciembre de mil, seiscientos, y ocho años: estando en el Hospital de los desamparados [&c.]. [In margin:] Instrumento de fundación del Hosp[ita]l. Produced in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Signed, with rúbrica. Notarial copy of the founding documents 1608-21 of the establishment later known as the Hospital de San Juan de Dios; it was run by the Brothers Hospitaller of St. John of God, by whom it was founded, until 1827 when it passed to the City of Zacatecas. The documents copied include the stringent conditions laid down by the Cabildo of Zacatecas, agreed to by the Order in the provisions dated 23 May 1608, and summarised by Muriel (1956-60), 2, pp. 39-45 (in the informative section on the hospital) at p. 41.

1776

10 ll. 31 x 21 cm. Bound.

Purchased 1962.

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.

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).