Born 1 September 1852 at Valencia, his father a Basque, his mother from Burgos. He was educated at Urgel (Seo de Urgel), Lerida, where his attention was turned to medicine by a severe attack of pleurisy. As a medical student he had a distinguished career, winning many prizes at the Valdemia College de Mataro. He was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the faculty of medicine at Barcelona, a position he held for six years, giving private courses of anatomy and operative surgery, and devoting some attention to the subject of anaesthesia both general and local. In 1875 he visited Paris to study surgery and in the same year was appointed on the staff of the Girona. In 1879 he was made director of the Hospital del Segrado Corazón de Jesus, and paid a second visit to France. From 1878 onwards he advocated steadily the adoption of Listerian principles in the practice of surgery, and was successful in reducing materially the mortality in the hospital over which he presided. His services were recognized by the award of the gold medal of the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugia, Madrid, and by the decoration with the Grand Cross de Beneficencia by King Alfonso XII. In 1890 he was president of the Academia y Laboratorio de Ciencias Médicas, Barcelona. He died at Barcelona on 23 April 1927. A bronze memorial was erected to his memory. Publications:- "De la anesthesia". *Independencia medica*, 1873, Nos. 3-12. "Un pas vers la solution du probleme de l'anesthesie locale" *Int med Congr IV,* Brussels, 1875. *Caracteres diferenciales entre el lupus, el epithelioma, y el cancer ulcerado*. Madrid, 1880. "Sobre el tratamiento quirtrgico del lupus." *Archivos de terapéutica médica y quirúrgica*, Barcelona, 1883, pp.1, 17, 33 and 65. *Guía práctica para la cura de las heridas y la aplicación del metodo antiseptico en cirugia*, 1880. *Manual práctico de cirugla antiséptica*. Barcelona, 1880; 2nd ed. 1887; 3rd ed. 1894. "Concepto quirúrgico de la inflammación". Barcelona, R Acad de Med 1885. "Heridas producidas por los proyectiles de los fusiles Remington y Mauser." Barcelona, Acad y labor de ciencias méd. 1893. "Cirurgía de las vias biliares: Ensenanzas de 2100 laparotomias; Curabilidad operatoria del cancer fundada en el conocimiento de su patogenia," papers in *Revista española de medicina y cirugía*. *Ponencia sobre las indicaciones de la intervención quirúgica en las afeciones del estómago*. Barcelona, 1903.