Background:

In his youth Vicente Antonio de Castro y Bermúdez was catalogued as a physician with a non-common intelligence and an encyclopedic culture.

Objective:

To value Vicente Antonio de Castro y Bermudez´s work as a physician, also as a patriot and masonic.

Development:

It included a historical documentary review (archives, official documents, articles, magazines, written press and books; the regional SciELO, PubMed and Infomed databases were also reviewed) on the trajectory of Vicente Antonio de Castro. 46 total number of documents were reviewed, 16 selected as bibliographic references. He stood out in his time for his important work as a physician, successful as one of the most important surgeons from 1840 to 1850, who introduced anesthesia in Cuba and Latin America. He was a great patriot and masonic too, he created the Gran Oriente de Cuba y Las Antillas logde (GOCA), formed by essential men of the Ten Years' War, such as Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Ignacio Agramonte, Serafín Sánchez and Antonio Maceo.

Conclusions:

Vicente Antonio de Castro y Bermudez´s medical, patriotic and Masonic life and work were prolific, he left indelible traces in all these facets.

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