Periódico de la Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica de Cádiz

The Periódico de la Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica de Cádiz was a Spanish scientific journal published in Cádiz during the early 1820s. It was issued by the Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica de Cádiz (Cádiz Medical-Surgical Society), a learned medical association, and ran for only four numbers between 1820 and 1824. The publication is recorded in bibliographic databases as a scientific journal and is associated with botanical illustrations and descriptions, reflecting the broad natural-history interests of medical societies of the period. Its abbreviated title, Periód. Soc. Méd.-Quir. Cadiz, appears in botanical and medical literature indexes. The journal is now defunct, but digitized copies are preserved in Spain's national digital newspaper and periodical archive, the Hemeroteca Digital of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, under ISSN 1131-4370. It is also indexed by the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), which links publications that contain botanical descriptions. The journal represents an early nineteenth-century example of specialized medical-scientific publishing in Spain, produced by a provincial medical society during a period of limited but growing professional periodical activity.

The Periódico de la Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica de Cádiz was published in Cádiz, Spain, by the Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica de Cádiz, a medical-surgical society active in the early nineteenth century. According to the Spanish Wikipedia entry, the journal was a publication with botanical illustrations and descriptions, and four numbers were issued between 1820 and 1824. The journal is listed in Wikidata as a scientific journal. Its abbreviated form, Periód. Soc. Méd.-Quir. Cadiz, is used in bibliographic citations. The publication is indexed by the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), indicating that it contained botanical content of nomenclatural relevance. Digitized issues are available through the Hemeroteca Digital of the Biblioteca Nacional de España under ISSN 1131-4370. The journal ceased publication after its fourth number in 1824, and no further issues are recorded.

• 1824

  Fourth and final issue published; journal ceases.

• 1820

  First issue published in Cádiz.

A specialized medical-scientific periodical of a provincial Spanish learned society in the early 1820s.

• Periódico de la Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica de Cádiz (journal)

  Scientific journal with botanical illustrations and descriptions; 4 issues, 1820–1824.

1. 1Wikidata entry for Periódico de la Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica de Cádizwikidata.org
2. 2Spanish Wikipedia article on Periódico de la Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgicaes.wikipedia.org
3. 3Hemeroteca Digital – Biblioteca Nacional de España (ISSN 1131-4370)hemerotecadigital.bne.es