Abstract
In this article the author presents a broad bibliography of the history of medicine in Mexico. According to José Sanfilippo, the history of Mexican medicine can be divided in three different stages: the teaching of the discipline, which establishes the subject of History of Medicine as obligatory in the curriculum of the Faculty of Medicine, of the National University, in 1956; then the documentary stage, with illustrious historians and bibliophiles such as Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, Joaquín García Icazbalceta and doctor Nicolás León, who offer a comprehensive presentation of the history of medicine in Mexico from the 16th Century until the modern medical doctors of the 20thCentury, like Ignacio Chávez and Miguel E. Bustamante; and finally the interpretative stage, in which diverse authors study and analyze the publications regarding the history of medicine that have been edited in our country.