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IGESIAS, Angel (e-glay'-syas), Mexican physician, born in the city of Mexico, 2 October, 1829; died there, 10 May, 1870. He studied at the College of San Gregorio, afterward, while a student at the College of medicine during the American invasion in 1847, enlisted in a battalion of volunteers, but was soon ordered to duty as assistant of Dr. Pedro Van der Linden in the hospital of San Sebastian. He also studied French, English, and natural history in the mining college, and in 1858 was graduated as doctor in medicine and surgery, afterward occupying for some time in the college the chair of physics and operative medicine. He went to Europe in 1854 to perfect his studies, and on his return to Mexico introduced the ophthalmoscope and published several articles about it in "La ration medica." After a second visit to Europe he introduced "cow-pox " virus taken from the German government farm, and established near Mexico a farm for its propagation, thus superseding the use of old and sometimes injurious lymph. For many years he was chief physician of the Jesus hospital, and by his assistance of the poor soon became popular During the French intervention and the empire he was forced against his inclination to accept some public offices, lint soon resigned, retaining only the honorary title of physician to the emperor. Notwithstanding, on the return of the republican government in 1867 he was persecuted, and emigrated to Paris, where he received, on 23 December, 1867, from the minister of public instruction, his title as doctor of medicine for France and its colonies. In 1869 he went to Spain to pass an examination, with a view of establishing himself in that country, but, hearing that the political animosities in Mexico were gradually abating, he returned to his country, where he died. He wrote, in both French and Spanish, "Tratado sobre el laringoscopio" (Paris, 1868).
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IGESIAS, Angel (e-glay'-syas), Mexican physician, born
in the city of Mexico, 2 October, 1829; died there, 10 May, 1870. He studied at
the College of San Gregorio, afterward, while a student at the College of
medicine during the American invasion in 1847, enlisted in a battalion of
volunteers, but was soon ordered to duty as assistant of Dr. Pedro Van der
Linden in the hospital of San Sebastian. He also studied French, English, and
natural history in the mining college, and in 1858 was graduated as doctor in
medicine and surgery, afterward occupying for some time in the college the chair
of physics and operative medicine.
He went to Europe in 1854 to perfect his studies, and on
his return to Mexico introduced the ophthalmoscope and published several
articles about it in "La ration medica." After a second visit to Europe he
introduced "cow-pox" virus taken from the German government farm, and
established near Mexico a farm for its propagation, thus superseding the use of
old and sometimes injurious lymph. For many years he was chief physician of the
Jesus hospital, and by his assistance of the poor soon became popular.
During the French intervention and the empire he was
forced against his inclination to accept some public offices, and soon resigned,
retaining only the honorary title of physician to the emperor. Notwithstanding,
on the return of the republican government in 1867 he was persecuted, and
emigrated to Paris, where he received, on 23 December, 1867, from the minister
of public instruction, his title as doctor of medicine for France and its
colonies.
In 1869 he went to Spain to pass an examination, with a
view of establishing himself in that country, but, hearing that the political
animosities in Mexico were gradually abating, he returned to his country, where
he died. He wrote, in both French and Spanish, "Tratado sobre el laringoscopio"
(Paris, 1868).
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