[Mexican surgery in gynecology and obstetrics during the 19th century]

We present a historical framework for the initiation and development of obstetrical-gynecological (OB-Gyn) surgery during the 19th century in Mexico. The importance of a new vision is underlined, and the founders of medical science, the Romanticist surgeons who initiated the teaching of modern medicine and surgery, supported the change. The French influenced the advent of anesthesia, asepsis, antisepsis and transfusion, which has a major significance for the accomplishment of OB-Gyn Surgery. Important persons in this field of medicine are mentioned and we conclude with techniques of contemporary surgery in the next century, integrated with medical care.