The surgeon José Pascual y Prats (1854-1931): Corporatism, press, bibliography and medicine during the Spain of the Restoration.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to investigate the professional, corporate and scientific career of the Girona surgeon José Pascual y Prats (1854-1931). His work at the Provincial Hospital of Santa Catalina in Girona and as dean of the provincial charitable medical corps should be highlighted, as should his presidency of the province's medical associations, and his creation and direction of the bulletins of both organisations, as well as his promotion of the Index Medicus Hispanus. Therefore, his biography allows us to consider three fundamental aspects of medical science during the Spain of the Restoration: associations, press and bibliography. At the same time, he maintained epistolary contacts with his family and friends, as well as with different representatives of the social elites of Girona and the Catalan and Spanish medical oligarchy. In short, Pascual was the most important physician of this period in the city and one of the most remarkable health professionals of contemporary Catalonia.