Abstract
Over the XIX Century, numerous periodical publications, specialized in medicine, were brought on by the need to interchange experiences and discoveries. This article analyzes only of them, dated from 1836 to 1899. Through this revision it is pretended enhance the objective of each publication, the specialties on which they were focusing, the diversity of ideological streams the scholars of the time adhered to, and to show which newspapers and magazines such as El Estudio, Anales del Instituto Médico Nacional, La Unión Médica de México, Gaceta Médica de México, Revista Médica and El Observador Médico, among others, are a valuable source of
information in order to know the progress of such a discipline.