[The start of urological teaching in the Spanish University. Dr. Alberto Suárez de Mendoza].
OBJECTIVE
We present a biographical sketch of Dr. Suarez de Mendoza, one of the first urologists trained as so in the Necker Hospital in Paris with Dr. Guyon, who opened the field to the creation of this speciality in Spain, and first official professor of the subject of in the Faculty of Medicine of Madrid.


METHODS
We reviewed his academic expedient in the National Historical Archive and search for data about his presence in Spain in the Faculty of Medicine and Medical College of Madrid. From the Royal Decrees we obtained information about the Free School of Medicine, and the creation of medical specialities in the University study plans; finally, we analyzed his written works.


CONCLUSIONS
We consider Dr. Suarez de Mendoza one of the personalities giving entity to Urology in our country, for his education, for the amplitude of his knowledge, and for his wide experience, as professor of the subject in the Spanish University, as author of a great number of published works, and as inventor of his contributions to the development of anesthesia and urology. His treaty the first in Spanish covering in detail the innovations in urological examination methods, enables us to know and value the progressive advance and evolution of knowledge in urology.
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, España. mariano.perez2@carm.es
Mariano
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Pérez Albacete
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