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The IBYS books GOMIS, Alberto & BERNARDO, Ángeles University of Alcalá. Faculty of Medicine. Spain e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] The Instituto de Biología y Sueroterapia (IBYS) was founded in Madrid, on the spring of 1919, it became the pharmaceutical laboratory that totalized a major number of records of wheys and vaccines in Spain before the Spanish Civil War. It began, in these years, an important publishing activity directed the sanitary instruction. Finished the Spanish Civil War (1939) the activity increased with the organization of the "Biblioteca Ibys de Ciencias Biológicas”, in which Faustino Cordón (1909- 1999) was the director; this “Biblioteca Ibys” developed the interest for the biological experimentation and it helped doctors, pharmacists, veterinarians, naturalists, agricultural, engineers, etc. There were raising up to a scientific consideration the problems that the daily practice was raising, and of the series "El Alción" that turned concerning the ataraxia. Financed by project HAR2009-09564 of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España). . COLLECTION “EL ALCIÓN“ The principal topic is the Ataraxia, (“Ἀταραξία "tranquility“) Greek term used by Pyrrho and Epicurus for a lucid state, characterized by freedom from worry or any other preoccupation. The principal addressees were the doctors. They all are Spanish authors. Between them, doctors (Teófilo Hernando, Manuel Bastos Ansart, Carlos Jiménez Díaz, Manuel Usandizaga), philosophers (Julián Marías) and critic of art (Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño) SCIENTIFIC DIVULGATION & HISTORY . THE “BIBLIOTECA IBYS DE CIENCIAS BIOLÓGICAS” Faustino Cordón Bonet (1909-1999) Books that describe the scientific bases that make possible the production of the products IBYS: History of the first 25 years of IBYS FORMULARIO, 1951 1944 1922 Nº 1 (1933) Nº 4 (1943) 1958 1958 1957 1960 1958 IBYS MANUALS Books that had for object assemble that knowledge that form the body of teaching, with those of recent acquisition. Spanish authors: Vicente Callao, Valentín de la Loma, Pedro Zarco, … The "Biblioteca Ibys de Ciencias Biológicas”, edited a series of books that were gathering the fundamental disciplines of the biological sciences. His efforts added in the collection two companies, the own Ibys, and the Revista de Occidente. No Spanish authors: Robert Hill, G. P. Whittingham, Robert Doerr, Karl Bucher, Theodor Bersin, C. Judson Herrick, L. V. Heilbrunn, Julian Huxley … Nº 1 (1952) Nº 2 (1952) Nº 3 (1952) 1956
