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Archivo
Rodrigo Pertegás
These archives,
housed in the History of Medicine Library and Museum, include part of
the extensive work conducted by José Rodrigo Pertegás (1854-1927)
on different archives in the city of Valencia, from which he extracted
and compiled a wide range of documentation and all types of information
about medicine. As a result it provides information about the history
of medicine that originated in archives that are still perfectly accessible
at present, such as the Municipal or Reino (kingdom) Archives, and archives
that no longer exist, such as the parish archives.
These archives
are currently divided into three sections. The first and perhaps the most
important consists of 14 boxes that contain the materials gathered together
by Rodrigo Pertegás to write a biobibliography of Valencian physicians.
The copied or extracted documents are ordered by centuries, grouped in
turn in files in alphabetical order, with each file dealing with a physician
or surgeon. The information, dating from the Middle Ages to the first
third of the 20th century, is heterogeneous and contains information on
topics data ranging from publications, to births, marriages and wills,
and contracts with the municipality and the performance of professorships
of medicine.
A great deal
of said information has been used by both professors in the Department
and researchers investigating Valencian physicians, because of the wealth
and precision of the collected information. There are also a few original
documents. It must also be remembered that much of the information was
collected from archives that no longer exist or that are difficult to
locate, as is the case of the wills.
The second
section consists of three boxes containing information obtained from very
similar sources as the previous section. One contains information about
epidemics, mainly in the city of Valencia, and the other two consist of
information, under the title of miscellaneous, about aspects of health,
the profession and medical practice in Valencia from Classical Antiquity
until the 20th century.
Finally,
the third section consists of a box of nineteenth-century, Valencian,
medical manuscripts and works by Rodrigo Pertegás himself. One
manuscript contains all the information he compiled for his studies of
Ros de Ursins, Jaume Roig and Pere Pintor. The second one contains information
on Pedro Ros and Faustino Barberá, and the original manuscript
and documents used to write his study of syphilis in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
Valencia.
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