Museo Madrid

Spanish Air Force Museum
Commentary
Military Health and B REGUET XIX SGR
“Cuatro Vientos”.

Santiago García Benito
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
April 21, 2012

Military health
D. AngelVargas-Machuca, colonel of the Spanish Air forces, with health personnel of Malaga’s Air
Force Base, created in 1989 an exhibition of health material showed at the clinic of the Base. The
exhibition infull was transferred to the Air Forces Museum in the hope that it would be displayed.
In this exhibition are showed the Air Force’s health material for medical examinations, either
preventives orfor air accidents.
Different types of kits are displayed, those used in ambulance units and several specific for different
aircrafts and helicopters, showing the evolution in their shape as well as intheir content. Of special
interest are the changes in the medications included in these different kits.
You can also view the various equipment and utensils used in the clinics for pilots’ medicalexams
and laboratory tests.

Corner dedicated to the Military Health located in Hangar 4 of the Museum

SANITARY MATERIAL PREPARED BY AIR PHARMACEUTICAL INSTITUTE
During the Civil War, wascreated in Burgos a Pharmacy Depot in support of the Northern Army.
Comm. D. Arturo Eyries Ruperes, Head of the Navarra’s and Turia’s Pharmacy Corps was appointed
its director.
This Depot, after thecreation of the EA (Spanish Air Forces) would become the “Air Pharmaceutical
Institute”, where drugs and medical supplies used by the EA were made.
D. Arturo Eyries, Ph.D in Pharmacy, was to be namedGeneral Inspector and Head Director of the
Pharmacy’s Air Services. He was its first Pharmaceutical General Inspector.

BREGUET XIX SGR “Cuatro Vientos”.
At the end of the African campaign, thegovernment of the Spanish Second
Republic intended to relaunch relations
with countries that were former
Spanish colonies. They had, also, a
technical objective to open a new aerial
trade route...