Manuel Valera Candel

Giuseppe Cervi, Guillaume Jacobe y las relaciones entre la «Regia Sociedad de Medicina y demás Ciencias de Sevilla» y la «Royal Society of London» en 1736

The eighteenth century was the century of scientific institutions. Spain did not remain apart from this process, and among the earliest institutions was the Regia Sociedad de Medicina y demas Ciencias de Sevilla, which, although founded at the beginning of the century, really came into its own in the decade of the thirties. In this reappearance of the Sevillian Society Giuseppe Cervi, first court physician to Felipe V and one of the most relevant personages of the Spanish medical panorama of the era, played a key role. This article aims to study the circumstances that surrounded the election of Cervi as a member of the Royal Society of London--thanks to the efforts by the French physician Guillaume Jacobe, hired by the Regia Sociedad, undertaken during a stay in Paris in 1735. The career of this physician and his services to the Spanish medical institution are also further examined.