Objective:

find out the origin and continuity of this professional figure.

Methods:

historical review of primary sources.

Results:

Saseta came from a family of bleeders who for 72 years made their private activity compatible with the municipal contract as hospitaller. Around 1770 the hospitalist is authorized to practice as a minor surgeon in the hospital. In 1802, they added to the contract the attention to childbirth after not hiring midwives. When dying, they redistributed the care he had agglutinated: the nursing care would end up in the Sisters of Charity, the minor surgical care in the surgery assistant (practitioner) and the childbirth care in the major surgeon.

Conclusions:

it was a unique and sporadic event due to circumstantial causes, mainly economic, in a context of major crisis that has no continuity after his death.