Jose Sanchis Banus

José Sanchis Banús (Valencia, June 3, 1893-Ibi, July 22, 1932) was a Spanish physician dedicated to neuropsychiatry, president of the Official College of Physicians of Madrid, and deputy socialist.

Biography

He was the grandson of a military doctor, José Sanchis Barrachina, who was a general of Military Health, and the son of José Sanchis Bergón, also a doctor, who was mayor of Valencia and the first president of the Spanish Collegiate Medical Organization.

Sanchis Banús at a medical-legal outreach conference at the Casa del Pueblo in Madrid (Spain)The Liberal1926)

He studied secondary school at the General and Technical Institute of Valencia between 1902 and 1908. He graduated in Chemistry and Medicine at the University of Valencia in 1915. From 1916 he lived in Madrid, where he received his doctorate at the Central University. In 1917 he studied in Germany and France with a scholarship from the Junta de Ampliación de Estudios Abroad. In 1919 he obtained a position as a doctor in the Provincial Charity of Madrid and was also an assistant in the Chair of Therapeutics of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Madrid. He was also appointed director of the Psychiatric Pavilion of the Provincial Hospital and professor of Psychiatry at the University of Madrid.

He founded, along with other doctors, the magazine Archivos de Medicina, Cirugía y Especialidades, of which he was later director. And the magazine Archivos de Neurobiología (1920) and the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatrists (1926) of which he was its first Vice-Secretary. In 1928 he was elected president of the Illustrious College of Physicians of Madrid; and in 1930 he was proclaimed vice president of the Ateneo de Madrid.

He participated in politics within the ranks of the PSOE, being elected deputy for Madrid in the elections to the Constituent Cortes of 1931 on the lists of the Republican-Socialist Conjunction. He was appointed professor of Criminal Psychopathology of the Superior Council of Psychiatry of the General Directorate of Health. With other colleagues he constitutes the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry.

Work

• Social medical study of the Gulf child (Doctoral Thesis). Madrid: tip. Excelsior; 1916.
• Etiology and pathogenic epilepsy. LOVE. 1930; 32(11):269-75.
• Modern Therapeutic of Epilepsy.
• The problem of schizophrenia.
• abnormal forms of tuberculosis meningitis.