Francisco Vallés
Francisco Vallés also known as ''Divino Vallés'' Covarrubias, Province of Burgos, Covarrubias, 4 October 1524 – Burgos, 20 September 1592) was a Spanish physician, the best example of the medical Renaissance in Spain. Biography He was born at Covarrubias, Province of Burgos, Covarrubias, and studied in several European cities, which brought him into contact with Andrea Vesalius, the personal physician of King Philip II of Spain and «''Médico de Cámara y Protomédico General de los Reinos y Señoríos de Castilla''» (chief physician Medical and General Chamber of Kingdoms and Dominions of Castile). He served most of his life in Alcalá de Henares, where he taught medicine, and was the first in Alcalá to teach medicine for the body. In addition to medicine Vallés was a great humanist and writer. His last years were spent in the apothecary's El Escorial, Monastery of ''El Escorial'', in which medicines were prepared by distillation of natural plants. He died in Bur ...
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