Rosendo Amor Esparza

Rosendo Amor Esparza (1879 to 1970) was a Mexican surgeon and medical researcher, born in Villa de Guadalupe, Zacatecas, and known in his time as the Prince of Surgeons for pioneering several surgical procedures, among them the epidural and the technique he called Raquianestesia, which he also taught to European physicians while studying in Europe from 1925 to 1927. He graduated as Doctor in Medicine from the National School of Medicine in Mexico City in 1904, directed that school from 1916 to 1920, taught surgical clinic, headed the gynecology department at the Hospital General de Mexico, and directed the Hospital Español from 1933 to 1938. From 1938 he served two terms as President of the National Academy of Medicine. He was chief surgeon at the El Toreo bullring in Mexico City, and in 1911 he presided over the White Neutral Cross, the first human rights organization in Mexico. A medal in his name has been awarded to distinguished Mexican physicians since 1972.