[My 25th anniversary with the academy. An excuse to remember some old friends who have disapeared]

As the author reaches his 25th anniversary with R.A.N.M., he remembers the academics therein, whom he found in the year of his entry (November, 1980), in the midst of life and work, and with whom he closely spent the following years, yielding anecdotal and human brush strokes through our brief pesonal encounters. Before remembering the academics now gone, we note another of those relationships, begun like the others in the some year and, happily, still maintaining today the precious gift of life. This exercise in historical reporting in which the memory does justice to those names that lent their prestige to Spanish Medicine, is not meant -in the words of Profesor Cruz y Hermida- to be a chapter in the history of medicine, but rather a page in the history of the National Royal Academy of Medicine.