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The teaching side of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a doctor and scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, is not widely publicized. Research and transmission of knowledge is more widespread. He taught classes in the three chairs he held: Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid.
In Valencia, in 1882, he did so in the chair of Descriptive and General Anatomy and researched vaccines such as cholera, with which he disagreed with the research of Jaime Ferrán.
In Barcelona, in 1887, he occupied the chair of Histology created at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, where his scientific production was impressive and he shared with his students his contacts with scientists from all over the world.
In 1892, he held the chair of Normal Histology and Histochemistry and Pathological Anatomy at the Central University of Madrid, where his classes were a great success with wonderful drawings on the blackboard as a result of his research.
His teaching weapons were his passion for medicine and convincing his students that "every man can be the architect of his own brain if he sets his mind to it."
His book Rules and Advice on Scientific Research was a great contribution and is still valid and is directed at studious youth to strengthen their love for laboratory tasks. It has been translated into numerous languages.
