Francisco Vallés
Francisco Vallés also known as Divino Vallés Covarrubias, 4 October 1524 – Burgos, 20 September 1592) was a Spanish physician, the best example of the medical Renaissance in Spain.He was born at Covarrubias, and studied in several European cities, which brought him into contact with Andrea Vesalius, the personal physician of King Philip II of Spain and «Médico de Cámara y Protomédico General de los Reinos y Señoríos de Castilla» (chief physician Medical and General Chamber of Kingdoms and Dominions of Castile).In addition to medicine Vallés was a great humanist and writer.His last years were spent in the apothecary's Monastery of El Escorial, in which medicines were prepared by distillation of natural plants.He was commemorated by the noted Spanish botanists Ruiz and Pavón when they named a South American shrub Vallesia in 1794.
