Egea y Galindo, Ricardo (d. 1893)

Memoria sobre el Tetános y ensayo crítico de los tratam[iento]s empleados. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico Signed, with rúbrica, and dated 27 April 1871. The paper, apparently unpublished, describes the types, causes, and symptoms of tetanus, and its duration, prognosis and treatment. In particular it discusses the therapeutic value of opium, chloroform, chloral and alcohol, and concludes that alcohol is the preferred remedy in the contemporary state of medicine.

1871

1 l., ff. 31. 21 x 13.5 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1927.

The author trained in Paris (1869) and in Mexico, and joined the Academia Nacional de Medicina de México in 1872; among his official appointments he was physician to the Hospital Juárez and a Deputy of the Union Congress. He contributed papers to the Gaceta Médica de México 1872-91, and published a number of monographs on diverse medical topics. A notice of his death appeared in the Gaceta Médica de México, 1893, 29 (6), 201.

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 León Collection.