[The transmission of knowledge in the Old Regime: Joseph Severo y López's teaching]

The author analyzes the educational activities of doctor Joseph Severo y Lopez, one of the main representatives of the Royal Studies of Practical Medicine of Madrid and a figure who has been little known so far due to the scarce data available about his life and work. The report is divided in a series of chapters that give an overview of the teaching and attending staff of that Royal Institution, its syllabus and, particularly, of Severo y Lopez's teachings as well as of the main educational and consulting works of medicine which he recommended.