Pedro López and the Hospital de la Epifanía (Mexico City, 1582): a physician's hospital with a crib for foundlings

A physician of Mexico City, one of the first to profess medicine in New Spain, got the city to give him the disused public granary in 1582 and turned it into a hospital with wards for both sexes and a crib for abandoned children, run at his own cost and named Epifanía. His son resisted its transfer to the Order of San Juan de Dios until a judge delivered it in the king's name, and the date of that handover is disputed by twenty years in the chroniclers themselves.