The Real Colegio de Cirugía de Cádiz (1748)

A naval surgery school approved by royal order of 11 November 1748, the first of the Spanish royal colleges of surgery and the model for Barcelona and Madrid. Its own textbook of 1763 shows how it worked — a treatise commissioned by a deliberation of the college assembly, taught in the house first and printed for beginners after — and also what it lacked: the ten plates were engraved by a student because no adequate burin could be had.