[Dr. José Rives y Mayor, operative surgeon at the Real Colegio de San Carlos de Madrid].
OBJECTIVE
To give notice of the biography and urologic contributions of José Rives y Mayor MD, "Catedrático" (Professor) of Surgery in the San Carlos Royal College of Surgery of Madrid, because he is considered one of the renovators of surgery in our country, as well as one of the principal introducers of anatomopathological studies in teaching.


METHODS
Among 69 urologic communications presented at the San Carlos Royal College Literary Meetings of, we selected those from Dr. Rives, author that presented the greater number of communications referent to urologic pathology in the period between 1788 and 1825, and we transcript two of them for better knowledge and understanding of Urology during that period. We also perform a bibliographic search to obtain as many biographic data about him as possible.


RESULTS
From the exposition of seven of his urologic observations and eight reviews we appreciate his knowledge of urological anatomy and pathology, and his knowledge of classic authors. He was specially expert in performing urethral dilations with little candles, which misuse he prevents against, in scrotal-testicular pathology and in urinary retention processes, that are included among his most significant analyses.


CONCLUSIONS
Dr Jose Rives y Mayor was a notable surgeon, he was outstanding in the San Carlos Royal College of Surgery of Madrid literary meetings where he presented a great number of observations and reviews, in which he maintained a galenic-hippocratic reasoning, besides a great anatomical knowledge, that informs us about the state of Urology in that period.
Pérez Albacete
Mariano
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Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, España.
D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history; D013030:Spain; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history*