Eleno de Céspedes practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Eleno de Céspedes as Spanish surgeon.
Eleno de Céspedes was born at Alhama de Granada in 1545. His recorded nationality is Spain.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Spain matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
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