Catalogue description Lemos Martinez, Ignacio Xavier de (1722-1777)

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Title: Lemos Martinez, Ignacio Xavier de (1722-1777)
Description:

A report on the mental condition of Juan José [Mathias] de la Peña y Brizuela.

 

Mexico

 

The 21 closely-argued paragraphs (possibly a draft), quoting extensively from Paolo Zacchia, Quaestiones medico-legales, [9 vols., Rome 162-61, according to Hirsch

 

(1935)], argue that Peña y Brizuela should be disqualified by his mental condition from appointment as Protomédico decano to which his seniority as member of the faculty would normally have entitled him. Lemos quotes some witnesses by name and clearly describes his condition como puede testificar todo Mexico.
Date: ?1776
Related material:

For Peña y Brizuela see also entry under NEW SPAIN. Real Audiencia (Sala del Crimen).
Held by: Wellcome Collection, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Martinez, Ignacio Xavier, de, Lemos, 1722-1777, physician

Lemos Martinez, Ignacio Xavier, 1722-1777, physician
Physical description: 14 ll.
Physical condition: 21 x 15.5 cm. Bound; signed, with rúbrica
Custodial history:

Guerra Collection.
Publication note:

For commentaries on Zacchia on mental deficiency see Cranefield and Federn (1970); and Vallon and Genil-Perrin (1912).
Subjects:
  • Brizuela, Juan José Mathia, de la, Peña, y, d 1781, physician
  • Peña y Brizuela, Juan José Mathia, de la, d 1781, physician
  • De la Peña y Brizuela, Juan José Mathia, d 1781, physician
  • Medical profession
  • Mental health
Administrative / biographical background:

Born in Puebla, Lemos was awarded his doctorate in medicine by the University of Mexico in 1764; he was Catedrático sustituto de prima de medicina 1769-73, and Catedrático sustituto de anatomía y cirugía from 1773 until his death. Peña y Brizuela, born in Mexico, died in 1789; he gained his doctorate in medicine from the same university in 1743 [see Guerra (Icon.) 288, 289, 290], was Catedrático sustituto de prima de medicina 1757-60, and held the Cátedra de vísperas de medicina from 1776 until his death. Notwithstanding the present report (which bears no sign of receipt by the Protomedicato) Peña y Brizuela died as Protomédico decano [see Gazeta de México, 1788-89, 3, p. 225 (20 January 1789)]. Some details of his life are given by Flores (1886-88), 2, p. 99. Both taught the outstanding clinician, botanist, pharmacologist, and medical reformer Luis José Montaña [1755-1820].

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