Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo

Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo (born January 27, 1837 in Mexico City , † March 14, 1885 in Apan / Hidalgo ) was a Mexican politician and military doctor , most recently in the rank of General Brigadier Médico Cirujano, which corresponds to the rank of general physician .

biography

Francisco Montes was the son of the officer Alejandro Montes de Oca, killed in the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847 , and his wife Guadalupe Saucedo. He attended the Colegio de San Juan de Letrán , visited at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina first physics - and Botanycourses and began studying medicine in 1856. In addition to several civil clinical uses, he was used as a military doctor during the battles of the Reformation War (1858–1861) and during the French intervention (1861–1867). In 1863 he married Lucía Durán.

From 1861 he was a prosector and head of anatomy work. In 1867 he was promoted to senior physician , directed the military hospital in Mexico City from 1867 to 1876 and from 1878 to 1885 as director, and from 1874 taught as professor of clinical surgery at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina. He was involved in the transformation of the medical corps and founded the Escuela Práctica Médico-Militar in 1880 , of which he was subsequently director. In 1882 he was promoted to general doctor.

As a liberal-minded politician, he was a member of parliament from 1882 and became a senator in 1884 . He died of pneumonia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo, General Brigadier Médico Cirujano (Spanish; PDF; 43 kB), Revista de Sanidad Militar 2006, 60/3 May – June, pp. 201–202.