[The urologic work of Doctor Alejandro Settier (1858-1915). (II). The consolidation of the urology specialty in Spain].

By the end of the 19th Century, and after the creation in 1896 of the French Society of Urology, the specialty on genitourinary organs disorders began to take shape in Spain, and its particular idiosyncrasy, recognized both within the hospital and private practices, becomes irreversible. Aside political support, certain writings published astride the last century and this one, will prove to be decisive to consolidate the urological specialty in our country. Such is the case with those written by Rafael Mollá y Rodrigo and Angel Pulido Martin, where the creation of the new discipline is postulated and defended, linking the related pathologies, outlining their competence and assembling the surgical procedures to be followed in order to resolve them. The Academies of Medicine and Surgery, in Madrid, also played a significant role in this task of promotion and diffusion of these specialties, in particular Urology; it is quite likely that the seed of new vocations would have germinated during their institutional meetings. At any rate, it is easy to demonstrate documentally how, since mid 19th Century, the nation's capital was witness of the attention given to the urinary tract which began to occupy a preferential position in the work of the most renowned general surgeons from the School of Madrid, such as Diego de Argumosa, Alejandro San Martin, Federico Rubio y Gali and Jesus Creus y Mansó.