Juan de Cabriada and the novator movement at the end of the XVII century. A reconsideration thirty years thereafter

Abstract

Thirty years ago, the author of the present article published the first study on Juan de Cabriada in which he already underlined that his Philosophical, Medico-chemical Letter (1687) was the manifesto of the novator movement that introduced modern medicine and the biological and chemical knowledge related to it into Spain. The article tries to offer an assessment of that event on the basis of the data compiled along three decades, including unheard-of materials and other material published in own and alien studies.