Calle de Morejón

The name recalls Antonio Hernández Morejón (Valladolid, 1773 – Madrid, 1836), an Enlightenment-trained physician who combined clinical practice with the study of his profession’s past. He graduated in Valencia, served the defense councils during the Peninsular War, and, once the fighting was over, won the chair of Clinical Medicine at the Royal College of San Carlos. His greatest mark lies in historical scholarship. He gathered and reviewed the written work of more than twelve hundred Spanish physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries in his Historia bibliográfica de la medicina española, seven volumes he never saw in print: they appeared years after his death. For that effort he is regarded as the country’s first great historian of medicine. Today it is a short street in the Almagro district, between Ponzano and Alonso Cano.