De la consolidación a la cesantía: evolución del profesorado de medicina en la universidad literaria de Sevilla (1833-1845)

Abstract

This article analyses the evolution of the professors of medicine at the Literary University of Seville between 1833 and 1845, the latter being the year in which medical studies were eliminated from the city of Seville. The consolidation of the medical teaching staff took place in 1834 thanks to some decentralised public examinations. In 1843 and now due to a government appointment, the medical faculty was assigned to teach in the newly created «Colegio de Prácticos en el Arte de Curar» (School of Practitioners in the Art of Healing) which recruited its members from the professors of the former Faculty of Medicine, the one that had been eliminated. As the members of this institution were suspended in 1845, there is an analysis of how they could be relocated as far as their professional career was concerned. The local conditions that favoured the creation and the ephemeral existence (between 1840 and 1842) of two professorships- one in Surgery and the other in Obstetrics-are very seriously taken into consideration.