Adolphe Gubler and the Journal de Thérapeutique (1874-1883)

Abstract

The present piece of work intends to approach one of the French journals on therapeutics that most influenced the Spanish medicine of the 19th century, i.e. the Journal de thérapeutique. Despite its relatively short editorial life, from 1874 to 1883, it indeed was published during one of the most important periods in the history of therapeutics and pharmacology in Europe, and served, so to speak, as a binding bridge between the clinical reality of the time and the new and revolutionary achievements in experimental pharmacology quite successfully personalized by François Magendie. The life and soul of the publication was Adolphe Gubler who significantly influenced on the Spanish physicians of the last quarter of the 19th century. The present work first lingers on the foundations that inspired Gubler's thought that may as well apply to what made the pith of the editorial line of the journal; it goes on to make a description of the formal aspects of the review and of its main section devoted to Its original works. The survey ends up by including a list of them and a subject index.