Francisco de Paula Campá y Porta

Francisco de Paula Campá y Porta
Medical career
Field	obstetrics and gynecology

Francisco de Paula Campá y Porta was a Spanish gynecologist and obstetrician.^[1] He was the founding figures of Valencian gynecology along with Manuel Candela in the nineteenth century.

Biography

Francisco was born in Vich, in 1838. He studied medicine at the University of Barcelona, and graduated in the year 1861. After working for a year in Vich, he returned to Barcelona, where he devoted himself to obstetric and gynecological studies and histopathological studies.^[2] Later he joined the experimentalist group headed by Amalio Gimeno y Cabañas in Valencia. He was the professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children from 1872 to 1889. In the same year he moved to the University of Barcelona as a professor. In 1892 he died in Barcelona.^[3][4]

Works

His numerous work made him one of the greatest international medical disseminators of his time. In 1877 he founded the magazine La Crónica Médica. He published more than two hundred articles, in which apart from clinical cases with histopathological analysis, he developed the study of the pathophysiology of menstruation and puerperal sepsis, whose pathology and prevention can be analyzed from the assumptions of medical microbiology.^[5] His instruments for work are exhibited in the Historic-Medical Museum of the University of Valencia, along with other relevant doctors such as Manuel Candela and Francisco Bonilla Mart.

Publications

• Campá y Porta, Francisco de Paula (1878). Librería de Pascual Aguilar, Valencia, ed. Tratado completo de obstetricia
• Campá y Porta, Francisco de Paula (1881). Imp. José M. Blesa, ed. Lecciones de ginecopatía o enfermedades especiales de la mujer,profesadas en la facultad de Valencia^[6][7]

References

1. López Pińero, José María (2014). Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Segunda edición ed.). Valéncia. ISBN 978-84-370-9605-6. OCLC 992023977.
2. López Casimiro, Francisco (2013). "José Ignacio Cruz Orozco (2012),Prietas las filas.Las Falanges Juveniles de Franco,Publicacions de la Universitat de València ,Valencia". Revista Mexicana de Historia de la Educación. 1 (2): 319–321. doi:10.29351/rmhe.v1i2.30. ISSN 2007-7335.
3. Bracho Lapiedra, Llum (2013-03-14), Casanova, Emili; Calvo, Cesáreo (eds.), "Criteris de denominació toponímica al País Valencià: el cas de la Gran Enciclopedia Temática de la Comunitat Valenciana", Actas del XXVI Congreso Internacional de Lingüística y Filología Románica, Berlin, Boston: DE GRUYTER, pp. 27–34, doi:10.1515/9783110299977.27, ISBN 978-3-11-029997-7, retrieved 2021-07-08
4. Fischer, H. (1972-11-16). "National Library of Medicine: Bibliography of the History of Medicine 1964—1969. U. S. Department of Health, Education and Weifare, Public Health Service, National Institut of Health, National Library of Medicine Bethesda (Maryland 20014)". Gesnerus. 29 (3–4): 296–297. doi:10.1163/22977953-0290304020. ISSN 0016-9161.
5. García Edo, Vicent; Garcia Sanz, Arcadi (2018). La Generalitat Valenciana en la història (in Catalan). doi:10.6035/gva_historia.2018. ISBN 9788417429454.
6. Llausas, Don Francisco (2010-08-31). "MEDICINA. Indicaciones i contra-indicaciones de la sangría en las enfermedades propias de la preñez.-Discurso de incorporacion de don Francisco Llausas a la Facultad de Medicina, leído en su sesion del 21 de noviembre de 1862". Anales de la Universidad de Chile. doi:10.5354/0365-7779.1862.3431. ISSN 0365-7779.
7. Luna-Estrella, Zoila; Rodríguez-Zurita, Julio V.; Cedeño-Albán, Nilda R.; Alvarado-Alvarado, Haydee M.; Valdez-López, Laura L. (18 January 2018). "Aportes de los marcadores bioquímicos para el establecimiento de los protocolos en el diagnóstico de sepsis neonatal en el sistema hospitalario docente de la Universidad de Guayaquil". Dominio de las Ciencias. 3 (4): 692–707. doi:10.23857/dom.cien.pocaip.2017.3.4.oct.692-707.