Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, builder of modern psychiatry in Mexico and Latin America. On the centenary of his birth.

This 2021 marks the centenary of Dr. Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (1921-2006) birth, a prominent member of our University and creator of institutions. In this brief communication, without pretending for it to be a biography, we will try to commemorate this event, with a judicious and objective account of the most outstanding aspects of his life and work.

Dr. Ignacio Fernández de Córdova (1777-1816): illustrated physician and the first American fabulist.

In this paper, we have tried to integrate a biography with the greatest data that we were able to obtain about the life of the Military Physician and Surgeon Ignacio Fernández de Córdova (1777-1816). For this purpose, we undertook the task of investigating the parish archives of the State of Guanajuato and Michoacán, as well as examining the bibliography on the subject. In the same way, it was possible to determine his degree of studies and the places where he did them.

[Dr. Raúl González Enríquez and the Establishment of the Latin American Psychiatric Association].

At the first World Psychiatry Congress (Paris, 1950), the Mexican doctor Raúl González Enríquez (1906-1952), at his own proposal and motion, created the Latin American Psychiatric Association (APAL), and the next year, between December 8th and 11th, 1951, with two branch offices already established in Mexico City and Jalapa, Veracruz, held the first APAL Congress, attended by delegates from 14 countries. That first Congress and the efforts of the founder have been maliciously dismissed in the annals of Hispanic American psychiatric history; thus, it is necessary to account for the events that passed, with the purpose of reclaiming the commendable work of such a distinguished, internationally renown psychiatrist.