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Diego Gaviria fue un intelectual adelantado a su tiempo que, como otros miembros de la Regia Sociedad de Medicina de Sevilla, pretendía sacar a España del secular retraso en que estaban sumidas sus ciencias aunque ello le costara a veces duros enfrentamientos con el poder eclesiástico como ocurrió en los casos de la disección de cadáveres y del baño en el río de las mujeres. En su dilatada vida profesional, 1704-1758, escribió mucho aunque haya sido muy poco lo que se ha publicado. De todos los manuscritos que quedan de él es especialmente interesante una carta al conde del Águila en la que analiza y respalda un escrito de fray Martín Sarmiento sobre el códice de medicina Estéfano del siglo XIV lo que le da pie para su tema favorito: la defensa de la ciencia de los árabes españoles.
Diego Gaviria was an intellectual ahead of his time who, like other members of the Regia Society of Medicine of Seville, intended to remove Spain from the secular delay in which his sciences were immersed even if it sometimes cost him hard confrontations with power ecclesiastical church as was the case in cases of the dissection of corpses and bathing in the river of women. In his long professional life, 1704-1758, he wrote much even though there was very little that has been published. Of all the remaining manuscripts of him is especially interesting a letter to the Count of the Eagle in which he analyses and supports a writing by Fray Martín Sarmiento on the 14th-century sephanoic medicine codex which gives rise to his favorite subject: the defense of the science of the Spanish Arabs.
