the first chair of veterinary medicine II

THE FIRST CHAIR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE IN ARGENTINA:
MANUEL PATIÑO AND FUENTES

We have seen in the number previous that the 10 of December of 1873 the Ministry of Justice comisionó to Jose M. González de Arriaga, Argentine consul in Cadiz, Spain, so that it contracted Don Manuel Patiño and Fuentes like Professor of Veterinary medicine and Rural Hygiene destined to teach in the Agronómicas Schools of the north of the country.

Having itself celebrated the contract, Patiño was named by decree - of the 15 of 1874 July - Professor of Veterinary medicine and Rural Hygiene in the Department Agronómico de Salta, with a monthly pay of 120 pesos and 150 of trip. In the memory of the Department corresponding to that year, the director of this establishment, Francisco Sans Rock mentions giving it classes of Veterinary medicine in the villa of the place. In 1875 he continued working in Jumps but to 150 pesos monthly.

Problems between the Director of the National School of Tucumán and the Director of the Agronómica School of that province gave reason in June of 1875 to that comisionara to the Chief inspector of Schools so that found out the reasons for the dispute, and the 24 of July of that same year took part the Departments Agronómicos de Salta and Tucumán. However, the 8 of March of 1876 the contract of Patiño to 150 pesos renewed - in It always jumps, but in the middle of that year the provoked conflicts and the shortage of students were the excuse so that it decreed to the definitive closing of both schools and the immediate cease of his employees and professors, giving them thanks for their served. It is possible to remember that by then Sans Rock no longer was the Director of the School of Jumps because had been designated to start up and to direct to the Agronómico Department de Mendoza. There are no more news of Patiño, although other professors who worked next to him obtained uses in other schools later.

Respect to Sans Rock we add that in the memory corresponding to 1877 of the Agronómico Department de Mendoza he proposed that the pavilion of Zootecnia formed - to teach the well-taken care of young and of the useful animals and budgeted the existence of a professor of Zootecnia and Veterinaria. Lamentably in the memory of the following year he himself director had to admit that between the matters of the third course the one of Veterinary medicine he had had to be suspended by the little number of professors, because he only counted myself with three to dictate 21 matters. With worthy perseverancia of better result, he returned to budget a professor of Zootecnia, Veterinary medicine and Rural Hygiene clarifying that ?must be special in veterinary medicine the one that teaches this subjet, and can dictate in addition Zoology, Zootecnia and the Rural Hygiene?. It insisted with the inclusion of a professor of Veterinary medicine on 1879, but in the memory of this year it is verified that the matter was dictating Agustín to it Magriñá, that it as well had to position Zoología and Zootecnia, and other quite dissimilar chairs like Arboriculture and Grape growing. Magriñá, that was not veterinary but engineer, was in 1874 professor of Agriculture in the Department Agronómico de Salta. In 1875 homónimo of Tucumán acted the same as but in the Department. In 1876 it continued working in Tucumán when the closing of this Department was decreed. The 8-2-1877 was named professor of the Agronómica School de Mendoza having in the 1879 to its position chair of Veterinary medicine. The matter, of three hours weekly, corresponded to the first year of extension studies, that were preceded other three preparatory and professional ones.

As it is possible to be appreciated, short it was the lapse in which Manuel Patiño and Fuentes exerted veterinary teaching in our country, but it does not clear that its chair of Veterinary medicine has been first in our territory and that the Hispanic colleague has been senior instructor of this specialty in Argentina. The criterion to perhaps contract professors in Spain, favored by the language, will change totally few years later when the educational establishment of Santa Catherine looks for beyond the Pyrenees. He himself principle will still stay in 1904 with the opening of the Superior Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary medicine of the Chacarita.

Published in Magazine of Veterinary Medicine, volume 80, number 5, 1999, p. 441.

Author:

Osvaldo Antonio Perez Veterinary doctor, UBA Lawyer in History, USAL Professor of History, USAL to oaperez@sinectis.com.ar Association Argentina de Historia of the Veterinary medicine http://webs.sinectis.com.ar/oaperez http://www.asarhive.com.ar

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