Francisco Vallés

Francisco Vallés according to a eighteenth-century engraving.

Francisco Vallés also known as Divino Vallés (4 October 1524 - 20 September 1592) was a Spanish physician, the best example of the medical Renaissance in Spain.

He was born at Covarrubias, and studied in several European cities, which brought him into contact with Andrea Vesalius, the personal physician of King Philip II of Spain and «Médico de Cámara y Protomédico General de los Reinos y Señoríos de Castilla» (chief physician Medical and General Chamber of Kingdoms and Dominions of Castile).

He served most of his life in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), where he taught medicine, an was the first in Alcalá to teach medicine for the body.

In addition to medicine Vallés was a great humanist and writer. His last years were spent in the apothecary's Monastery of El Escorial prepared by the distillation of natural plants. He died in Burgos, and is buried in the chapel of Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso in Alcalá de Henares.

Books

• Claudii Gal. Pergameni De Locis Patientibus Libri Sex (1551).
• Controversiarium medicarum et philosophicarum (1556).
• Commentaria in quartum librum metheoron Aristotelis (1558).
• In Aphorismos, & libellum de alimento Hippocratis, comentaria (1561).
• Comentarii de vrinis, pulsibus & febribus (1565).
• Commentaria in Prognosticorum Hippocratis (1567).
• Galeni ars medicinalis commentariis (1567).
• Comentaria in libros Galeni de differentia febrium (1569).
• Commentaria in libros Hippocratis de Ratione victus in morbis acutis (1569).
• In libros Hippocratis de morbis popularibus, commetaria (1577).
• De sacra philosophia. (1587).^[1][2]
• Methodus medendi (1588).
• Tratado de las aguas destiladas, pesos, y medidas de que los boticarios deuen usar (1592).

See also

• Alcalá de Henares
• Covarrubias
• Medical history
• General practitioner
• University of Alcalá

References

1. ^ Colmeiro M. La botánica y los botánicos de la Península Hispano-Lusitana. 1858. p.5 y 155.
2. ^ Salinas Araya A. Tradición e innovación en la medicina española del Renacimiento. Ars Medica. 4(4).

External links

• Francisco Valles. Retratos de Españoles ilustres con un epítome de sus vidas. Madrid; 1791
• Reverte Coma JM. "Biografía de Francisco Vallés".
• Martín Ferreira AI. «Las ‘controvertidas’ Controversiae del médico humanista Francisco Vallés: Controversiarum medicarum et philosophicarum libri decem 1556–1590». Universidad de Valladolid.

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Name	Valles, Francisco
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Date of birth	1524
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Date of death	1592
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