In the history of medicine, Antonio Vallejo-Nájera is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Antonio Vallejo-Nájera as psychiatrist (1889–1960).
Antonio Vallejo-Nájera was born at Paredes de Nava in 1889. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at University of Valladolid.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at University of Madrid and Spanish Military Health Corps.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Health (1947).
That the work was done from Spain matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Antonio Vallejo-Nájera died in 1960, aged 71. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Health — 1947
- Held posts at University of Madrid and Spanish Military Health Corps
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