Precursores de la cirugía dermatológica española

In Spain, dermatologic surgery as such did not really exist until the first third of the 20th century, when Enrique Álvarez Sainz de Aja and Vicente Gimeno emerged as the main exponents of this discipline. Of these 2, Álvarez Sainz de Aja-drawing on his previous experience as a general surgeon and obstetrician-was the better practitioner of the incipient dermatologic surgery. The other, Gimeno, wrote an interesting booklet on dermatologic surgery that was published in 1923 and that formed the basis of his inaugural speech to the Spanish Royal National Academy of Medicine.