[Pierre Ochart, third printer in Mexico City and editor of the first medical book in America, Opera medicinalia, by Dr. Francisco Bravo, 1570].

The first medical book edited in the American Continent was printed by Pierre Ochart in Mexico City (1570). He was born in Normandy in the City of Rouen, France, and learned the profession of printer in Mexico City. We have done an examination of the book written by Francisco Bravo, a Spanish doctor in medicine who practiced in Mexico City since the XVIth century second half.