Background
Liceaga was born on October 13, 1839, in Guanajuato City, Mexico, the son of a physician Francisco Liceaga and Trinidad Torres de Liceaga.
1866
Knight of the Order of Guadalupe
Circuto Escolar 411A, Copilco Universidad, Coyoacán, 04360 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Liceaga studied at the School of Medicine in Mexico City, where he received a Doctor of Medicine in 1866.
Calle Pedro Lascurain de Retana #5, Zona Centro, 36000 Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico
Liceaga was educated at the College of the State of Guanajuato.
Liceaga was born on October 13, 1839, in Guanajuato City, Mexico, the son of a physician Francisco Liceaga and Trinidad Torres de Liceaga.
Liceaga received his primary education at Guanajuato. After attending the old College of San Gregorio, where he took the first prize in Latin, and later the College of the State of Guanajuato, he entered the School of Medicine in Mexico City, where he received the Doctor of Medicine in 1866.
After graduation, Liceaga taught physics and natural history at the College of San Ildefonso. In 1868 he joined the staff of the School of Medicine as associate professor of surgery and became professor the following year. Appointed dean in 1902, he reformed the curriculum and resigned in 1911. Liceaga served on the staff of the San Andres and maternity hospitals in addition to conducting a private practice. A member of the National Academy of Medicine, he was its president in 1878-1879 and 1906-1907.
Liceaga's interest in hygienology was awakened by Chandler, chairman of the New York State Board of Health, while on a visit to the United States in 1883. As chairman of the Council of Public Health, which post he held until his resignation in 1914, Liceaga helped to organize public health work throughout Mexico. In 1891 he drafted the first sanitary code. Read at a meeting of the American Public Health Association, it was characterized by Baker as more advanced than any in the United States. Under Liceaga’s influence, the code was amended in 1894, and a new version enacted in 1902.
In 1887-1888 Liceaga visited Europe, inspecting public health works - mostly water supply, sewage, and fumigation facilities - in Paris, Vienna, Brussels, and Berlin. At Vienna he attended the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography; and in Paris, he obtained rabies virus from the Pasteur Institute through Roux, which enabled him to administer the first human vaccination in Mexico in 1888.
Liceaga’s successful campaigns against plague, yellow fever, and malaria and his efforts to arouse public interest in the fight against tuberculosis brought him international recognition. He organized the first and second Mexican Medical Congresses (1876, 1878) and was president of both. At the 1883 National Congress of Hygiene he presented a full program for public health legislation and administration. At the first Pan-American Sanitary Conference (Washington, 1902) he was influential in establishing the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau. Liceaga was president of the third convention, held in Mexico City in 1907. He also was president of the American Public Health Association in 1895.
Liceaga married Dolores Fernandes de Zanregni on December 24, 1870, they had four children.