Francisco Delgado Jugo (October 1830August 19, 1875) was a Venezuelan ophthalmologist.
Biography Early life and education Francisco de Asís Delgado Jugo was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela in October 1830. He completed his early education in his hometown of Maracaibo.La Ilustración española y americana. (1875). Spain: Gaspar y Roig.
After beginning his medical studies in Caracas, Venezuela, he went on to complete his doctorate in Lima, Peru at the University of Lima.
In 1850, he relocated to Paris, France and was invested as doctor by the University of Montpellier. He studied under French ophthalmologist Louis-Auguste Desmarres at his special ophthalmological clinic. He was later appointed head of the clinic.Jamain, A. (1869). Tratado elemental de patología y de clínica quirúrgicas. Spain: Carlos Bailly-Baillière.
Deciding to move to Spain in 1858, he settled in Madrid and established a clinic on Calle del Humilladero. He opened a free course in ophthalmology.El Genio médico-quirúrgico: periódico de ciencias médicas. (1875). Spain: Imprenta de M. Alvarez. Appointed by Julián Calleja y Sánchez, he directed the construction of the ophthalmology department at the Old Medicine School of San Carlos. He also taught Cayetano del Toro and Santiago de los Albitos.Ortiz García, C., Sánchez Gómez, L. Á. (1994). Diccionario histórico de la antropología española. Spain: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Departamento de Antropología de España y América.
Anthropological Society of Madrid When Pedro González de Velasco founded the Anthropological Society of Madrid () in Spain, Delgado Jugo was appointed as the secretary on September 14, 1865.La España médica: periódico de medicina, cirugía, farmacia y ciencias auxiliares. (1865). Spain: Imprenta Médica de Manuel Alvarez.Francisco de Asis Delgado Jugo. (1866). Spanish Anthropological Society: Translation of the Secretary’s Address. The Anthropological Review, 4(14), 259–266. https://doi.org/10.2307/3025088 He held the general secretary position until 1873.
Delgado Jugo delivered a speech on December 31, 1865, for the opening of the 1866 academic year at the Matritense Medical-Surgical Academy.Delgado Jugo, F. d. A. (1865). Discurso leído en la sesión inaugural del año académico de 1866 en la Academia Médico-Quirúrgica Matritense, verificada el 31 de diciembre de 1865 por el socio Francisco de Asís Delgado Jugo. Spain: (n.p.).
On April 20, 1866, he was a member of The Spanish Abolition Society and involved in its early proceedings.Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. (1867). United Kingdom: Ordered to be printed.
As a delegate of Madrid, he was appointed to the organizing committee of the International Medical Congress on June 5, 1866, resulting in the 1867 Exposition Universelle.La España médica: iberia médica y cronica de los hospitales : periòdico de medicina, cirugia, farmacia y ciencias auxiliares. (1866). Spain: (n.p.).
His practice was established on Calle de San Bernardo in Spain's capital. In 1868, he attended the International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology held in England on August 20.Transactions of the Third Session which Opened at Norwich on the 20 the August and Closed in London on the 28th August 1868 (etc.). (1869). United Kingdom: (n.p.).
On April 18, 1869, he joined members of the Medical-Surgical Press of Madrid, including Pedro González de Velasco and Quintín Chiarlone, to discuss convening a general medical assembly.El Genio médico-quirúrgico: periódico de ciencias médicas. (1868). Spain: Imprenta de M. Alvarez.
As a delegate of the University of Madrid's Academy of Public Lectures, he attended a literary festival honoring Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes on April 23, 1869.Fiesta literaria celebrada en honor de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra por la Academia de Conferencias y Lecturas Públicas de la Universidad. 23 de Abril de 1869. (1869). Spain: Academia de Conferencias y Lecturas de la Universidad.
In October 1869, El Pabellon Medico reported that the Municipal Charity of Madrid launched a clinic for the poor with eye conditions, under the management of Delgado Jugo.Annales d'oculistique. (1869). France: Doin.. The special consultation was located in the first aid center of the 6th district of Tetuán. By 1871, he worked for the Municipal Charity of Madrid () within the city's second district of Arganzuela at an eye disease clinic.Anuario médico-quirúrgico y farmacéutico de España. (1871). Spain: Gregorio Estrada.
Delgado Jugo worked on the Spanish version of German ophthalmologist Richard Liebreich's Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy, which was published in 1870, after the original 1863 edition. This translation expanded the knowledge of ophthalmoscopy in Spanish-speaking medical communities.Liebreich, R., Delgado Jugo, F. (1870). Atlas de oftalmoscopia representando el estado normal y las modificaciones patológicas del fondo del ojo visibles con el oftalmoscopio. Spain: Bailly-Baillière. Assisting Louis de Wecker on June 1, 1872, he translated Traité théorique et pratique des maladies des yeux into Spanish and provided original notes and engravings.Journal général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie. (1872). France: Cercle de l'imprimerie, de la librairie et de la papeterie.
Amadeo I of Spain and Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo entrusted him to the directorship of the National Ophthalmological Institute (), inaugurated in 1872, of which he was director until his death.Delgado Jugo, F. d. A. (1875). Instituto Oftalmológico: exposición presentada al Excm. Señor Ministro de la Gobernación. Spain: Imprenta de José M. Ducazcal.
In London, England, from August 1 to August 3, 1872, he took part in the Fourth International Ophthalmological Congress.Proceedings of the international congress. (1873). (n.p.): (n.p.).
On September 22, 1872, he signed a petition to the Senate in Madrid for the abolition of slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico.The Anti-slavery Reporter. (1873). United Kingdom: (n.p.).
He was featured in the Spanish medical journal El Anfiteatro Anatómico Español in 1873. He gave a lecture on the history of corneal diseases on March 20, 1873, at the Medical-Surgical Athenaeum.El Anfiteatro anatómico español. (1873). Spain: Imprenta de D. Juan Aguado.
Death Francisco Delgado Jugo died in Vichy, France on August 19, 1875.
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