Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo

Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo ( born January 27, 1837 in Mexico City; † March 14, 1885 in Apan / Hidalgo ) was a Mexican politician and military doctor, most recently in rank General Brigadier Médico Cirujano that corresponds to the rank of Surgeon-General.

Biography

Francisco Montes was the son of the officer Alejandro Montes de Oca, died in February 1847 at the Battle of Buena Vista, and his wife Guadalupe Saucedo. He attended the Colegio de San Juan de Letrán, visited at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina first physics and botany courses and took in 1856 to study medicine on. In addition to several civilian clinical uses, he was employed as a medical officer during the battles of the Reformation War (1858-1861) and during the French intervention ( 1861-1867 ). In 1863, he married Lucía Durán.

From 1861 he was prosector of anatomy and head work. In 1867 he was promoted to colonel doctor, conducted from 1867 to 1876 and from 1878 to 1885 as Director of the Military Hospital in Mexico City and taught from 1874 as professor of clinical surgery at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina. He was involved in the transformation of the medical corps and founded in 1880, the Escuela Militar Práctica Médico- whose director he was then. In 1882 he was promoted to Surgeon-General.

As a liberal -minded politician, he was a deputy from 1882 and 1884 Senator. He died of pneumonia.