TOMAS ROMAY CHACON - MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED 10/15/1839 - HFSID 250221
Price: $800.00
TOMAS ROMAY
As head of the medical staff at the Royal Military Hospital in
Havana, he signs a manuscript document granting convalescent leave to a soldier
in the Naples Regiment (1839). A rare signature!
Manuscript Document signed: "Dr. Tomas Romay", 8¼x12.
Havana, Cuba, 1839 October 15. In Spanish, loosely translated. As head of
the department of medicine at San Ambrosio Royal Military Hospital, Havana, he
authorizes convalescent leave for Sebastian Rodriguez, a soldier in the
1st Company of the Naples Regiment. Cuban doctor and author Tomas Romay
Chacon (1764-1849) was a skilled doctor and forward-looking hygienist and
professor of philosophy and medicine at the Royal and Pontifical University
of Havana. An early advocate of vaccination, he played a major role in
fighting epidemic diseases, including Yellow Fever. While promoting free
primary education and other measures to improve life in Cuba, he was
staunchly loyal to the Spanish crown, publishing an 1820 essay opposing
independence of the Spanish colonies in the Americas. The Naples Regiment
of infantry, a veteran of Europe's wars, was stationed in the Caribbean from
1784, first in Puerto Rico and later in Cuba. Horizontal fold with 1½ wear hole
at right. Toned and foxed. Edges chipped and worn. Left corner worn off
diagonally.
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