Doctor Pedro Recio of Tirteafuera

Also known as: Doctor Pedro Recio / Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers / Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera / Doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera / Doctor Recio / Pedro Recio the doctor / the doctor · Family: Barataria · Role: doctor · First appears: Part 2, Ch. 49.1

Life events

• Doctor Pedro Recio permits Sancho to eat supper despite his medical objections.(Part 2, Ch. 49.1)
  • With: Sancho Panza
  • “At last Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to let him have supper that night though it might be in contravention of all the aphorisms of Hippocrates.”
• Doctor Pedro Recio restricts Sancho Panza’s breakfast to conserve and cold water, leaving him hungry.(Part 2, Ch. 51.1)
  • With: Sancho Panza
  • “The señor governor got up, and by Doctor Pedro Recio’s directions they made him break his fast on a little conserve and four sups of cold water”
• Doctor Pedro Recio starves Sancho Panza through preventive diet, leaving him expecting to die.(Part 2, Ch. 51.3 · 📍 this town)
  • With: Sancho Panza
  • “This doctor says of himself that he does not cure diseases when there are any, but prevents them coming, and the medicines he uses are diet and more diet until he brings one down to bare bones; as if leanness was not worse than fever.”

Part 2, Ch. 49.1

• protégé: Sancho Panza “At last Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to let him have supper that night though it might be in contravention of all the aphorisms of Hippocrates.”

Part 2, Ch. 51.1

• pupil: Sancho Panza “The señor governor got up, and by Doctor Pedro Recio’s directions they made him break his fast on a little conserve and four sups of cold water, which Sancho would have readily exchanged for a piece of bread and a bunch of grapes; but seeing there was no help for it, he submitted with no little sorrow of heart and discomfort of stomach; Pedro Recio having persuaded him that light and delicate diet enlivened the wits, and that was what was most essential for persons placed in command and in responsible situations, where they have to employ not only the bodily powers but those of the mind also.”

Part 2, Ch. 51.3

• enemies with Sancho Panza (Sancho describes the doctor’s treatment as killing him with hunger.) “In short he is killing me with hunger, and I am dying myself of vexation;”

Part 2, Ch. 53.2

• protégé: Sancho Panza “That is unnecessary, señor governor,” said Doctor Recio, “for I will give your worship a draught against falls and bruises that will soon make you as sound and strong as ever;”

Part 2, Ch. 55.2

• enemies with Sancho Panza “I have answered questions, I have decided causes, and always dying of hunger, for Doctor Pedro Recio of Tirteafuera, the island and governor doctor, would have it so.”

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Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.