[The Urinary Tract Diseases Dispensary and Clinic of the Instituto Rubio (1885). !st hospital service specializing in urologic pathology in the history of Spanish medicine. 2nd period. The Instituto Rubio in Moncloa (1896-1936).(II)].
In 1896, for different reasons and requirements, the Institute of Operative Therapy of the Hospital de la Princesa was transferred to a new and ample site in the Moncloa district in Madrid, with building complexes and pavillions for the dispensaries and policlinics for practically all surgical specialties, with all the necessary equipment. This came to be known as the "Rubio Institute". Luis González Bravo y Serrano, Suender's assistant, was in charge of the new Dispensary and Clinic for Diseases of the Urinary Tract of the Institute until 1929; Carlos Negrete de los Reyes was his assistant. Both specialists' initiative and drive led to the creation of the Spanish Urological Society in 1911. They were elected President and Secretary, respectively, to the first Board of the Society. This article reviews the activities of the specialists in Diseases of the Urinary Tract of the new Institute in the provision of care, in the field of teaching and research, from their brilliant beginnings to their decline in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War broke out. In my view, for all the contributions of those who worked in this Section and its significant influence on the Spanish specialists during its existence of more than 50 years, the Dispensary and Clinic of Diseases of the Urinary Tract of the Rubio Institute should be considered the catalyst and essence of Spanish urology and the Spanish Urological Society.
Maganto Pavón
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Servicio de Urología. Hospital Ramón y Cajal de Madrid, España.
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