[The Literary Friendly Assembly (Jorge Juan, Cádiz, 1755): a Spanish scientific academy with a high medical content].
In commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the creation of the Asamblea Amistosa Literaria in Cádiz by Jorge Juan, we are making a historical review in which the distinguishing notes, of an intrinsic nature, are emphasised and other ideas are established, of a social and historical extrinsic nature, in contradiction with a current trajectory of a progressively legendary nature. As regards Medicine and Surgery, we note: 1) the numerous presence and outstanding participation of doctors and surgeons: 50% of the delegates and 30% of the speakers; 2) that the written contributions of doctors and surgeons may be considered truly exceptional; 3) that in Cadiz, in 1755, the mathematicians and physicists of European stature, Jorge Juan and Luis Godin, met at the Academy of Sciences not only with doctors (University) but also surgeons (non-University) and considered them to be not only ",academics", but also "scientists".
González de Posada
Francisco
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D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013030:Spain