[Surgery from the end of the colonial regime to the conformation of independent Mexico].

Around the end of century XVIII the surgery of Nueva España was integrated to the renovation process that was given in Europe from principles of the illustrated century. As a result, the Royal College of Surgery was created; this institution was responsible for the education of surgeons of the kingdom, introducing and spreading the new and modern medical surgical theories. During the war of independence the College demonstrated its importance when they needed the graduates and students to serve the army.

[The teaching of clinical medicine and surgery at the end of the Colonial Period].

There were three schools of medicine in Mexico at the beginning of the Independence time where the doctors and surgeons could learn. In the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Mexico, the most ancient and traditional, the humoral model balance based on medieval knowledge and scholastic method was the rule. At the end of the XVIII century, the Nueva España enrollment in the Illustration movement, this led to an opening period and development of the scientific world.