Gaspar Casal

He grew up in Utrillas and is thought to have apprenticed at Atienza with Juan Manuel Rodriguez de Lima, an apothecary to Pope Innocent XI.

He practiced medicine in Oviedo from 1720 to 1751, at which time he moved to Madrid as King Ferdinand's physician.

He described pellagra in a book published in 1762, calling it mal de la rose due to the red rash seen on the hands and feet of sufferers.

[2] His “Historia affectionum quarundam regionis hujus familiarum” described scabies and treatment using sulfur ointment.

After her death he married Maria Álvarez Rodríguez Arango and had two more children.