The Hospital de la Isleta, also known as the Royal Army and Navy Hospital, was considered the most important of all military hospitals on the Iberian Peninsula, due to its strategic geographic location and the therapeutic, surgical, and pharmaceutical applications carried out there\u2014particularly during the Spanish War of Independence. These innovative treatments and formulas were still being used a century later in renowned European hospitals, such as that of Paris.<\/p>\n\n
The \u201cSurgical Formulary for Use at the Military Hospital of Mah\u00f3n\u201d was written by the hospital\u2019s director and chief surgeon, Dr. Manuel Rodr\u00edguez Caramazana, on March 25, 1808. In 2014, the Uriach Foundation, in collaboration with the Hospital Illa del Rei Foundation, published a facsimile edition of the work, which includes a descriptive study by Dr. Anna M. Carmona i Cornet, as well as a prologue by Dr. M. Gr\u00e0cia Segu\u00ed Puntas.<\/p>\n\n