Historical Critique of Spanish Venereology

Abstract The journal's centenary this year provides a good chance to analyze the changes that have taken place in Spanish dermatovenereology. At such an important milestone, the tendency is to highlight major scientific achievements while neglecting the many more mundane years. This historical critique aims to explain the merit of our mentors —given the adverse and unstable scientific, economic, and social situation— in merely aiming to copy the best of other more stable countries to create dermatology structures and programs from which we have all since benefited. Likewise, a more recent period and one about which less has been written —the 1980s— is evoked.