Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (born 1747)

Eugenio Espejo

18th century Spanish physician

Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo[a] was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of criollo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who inspired the separatist movement in Quito. He is regarded as one…