Ignacio Mariano Martinez de Galinsoga
Ignacio Mariano Martinez de Galinsoga (1766 Huesca, Granada - 1797), physician to the Spanish Queen consort Maria Luisa of Parma, founder and director of the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, and founder of the Spanish Real Academia Nacional de Medicina. The botanical genus Galinsoga is named after him, while a street in Vélez Rubio (Almería) commemorates him.
Plants of the genus Galinsoga arrived in Europe from the Americas and by 1776 were found in Kew Gardens and in 1794 in the Botanical Gardens of Paris and Madrid. [1][2]
Galinsoga wrote a 1784 book "Demostración mecánica de las enfermedades que produce el uso de las cotillas" about the health hazards inherent in the wearing of corsets, and pointed out the absence of such health problems among peasant women. [3]