III Premio Amigos de la Historia Veterinaria. Más allá de la hagiografía o el victimismo: la trayectoria de Abelardo Gallego Canel en Santiago de Compostela (1903-1921)

Resumen

When studying the life and work of the great masters, there is a tendency towards exaggeration and hagiography. On the other hand, also to victimhood. An example of this is the inexact solitary work of Cajal, a hackneyed question that has not been sustained since Professor López Piñero has shown that Spanish histology has existed for two hundred years before D. Santiago, since the anatomical atlas of Crisóstomo Martínez, a scholar of the histology of bone tissue in the 17th century, and the influence that Simarro, Golgi, D. Aureliano Maestre de San Juan and their collaborators had on their work4. Eminences such as Ortega and Severo Ochoa even signed up to these excesses, against whom López Piñero charges harshly. It is also frequent that the mistakes made by some illustrious author are perpetuated, as in a cataract, in the successive works of more discreet people, admirers of the latter. Having noticed various errors and inaccuracies in the life and work of Gallego Canel during his period in Compostela, fundamentally due to the illustrious pen of the remembered Mr. Benito Madariaga de la Campa (1931-2019), we will try to stick to the proven truth, beyond doubt reasonable. We will fundamentally do a study of the subject based on the local press