ABSTRACT
The record of early anatomy studies at the University of Alcalá de Henares is even more fragmentary than sources from the Universities of Salamanca and Valladolid. In spite of the flaws in the record-keeping at Alcalá de Henares, its medical faculty – founded in 1510 – produced some of the most renowned Spanish physicians of the sixteenth century. One of these, the court physician Luis Lobera de Avila, published a medical textbook entitled Remedio de cuerpos enfermos y la silva de experiencias (Alcalá, 1542), which included a short treatise on anatomy. However, no ‘post-Vesalian’ anatomy books were published in this university town, despite the distinguished facilities of the local publisher Juan de Brocar, whose printing press manufactured a number of other significant medical books of Golden Age Spain, including the most celebrated works of Francisco Valles, who was primary professor of the medical faculty from 1557 to 1572.
