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SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL (1852-1934) Manual de anatomía patológica general : seguida de un resumen de microscopia aplicada á la histología y bacteriología patológicas. Imprenta de la Casa Provincial de Caridad. 1890 First edition. 447 p. : ill. (some col.). 26 cm.

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born on May 1, 1852, at Petilla de Aragón, Spain. In 1873 he took his Licentiate in Medicine at Saragossa and served, after a competitive examination, as an army doctor. In 1877 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Madrid and in 1883 he was appointed Professor of Descriptive and General Anatomy at Valencia. In 1887 he was appointed Professor of Histology and Pathological Anatomy at Barcelona and in 1892 he was appointed to the same Chair at Madrid. In 1900-1901 he was appointed Director of the «Instituto Nacional de Higiene» and of the «Investigaciones Biológicas». In 1880 he began to publish scientific works, of which the following are the most important: Manual de Histología normal y Técnica micrográfica (Manual of normal histology and micrographic technique), 1889 (2nd ed., 1893).; Manual de Anatomía patológica general (Manual of general pathological anatomy), 1890 (3rd ed., 1900). In addition may be cited: Les nouvelles idées sur la fine anatomie des centres nerveux (New ideas on the fine anatomy of the nerve centres), 1894; Textura del sistema nervioso del hombre y de los vertebrados (Textbook on the nervous system of man and the vertebrates), 1897-1899; Die Retina der Wirbelthiere (The retina of vertebrates), 1894. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1906/cajal-bio.html)

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