MEDICAL

STUDIES OF
1880 - 1882
RIZAL IN UST
MARIANNE TAMPEPE V.
EL CONSEJO DE LOS DIOSES - THE
COUNCIL
OF THE GODS (1880)
Artistic-Literary Lyceum
Opened another literary contest ( to both filipinos and
spaniards) to commemorate the 4th centennial of the death
of Cervantes
Cervantes
was a Spain’s glorified man-of-letters and famous author
of Don Quixote
Rizal submitted an allegorical drama entitled “El Consejo
de los Dioses” (The Council of the Gods)
EL CONSEJO DE LOS DIOSES - THE
COUNCIL
OF THE GODS (1880)
The Council of the Gods
was based on the Greek classic
aided by Fr. Rector of Ateneo

PRIZE: Gold Ring engraved the bust of Cervantes

Winners
1st Place: Jose Rizal ( 19 years old)
2nd Place: D. N. Del Puzo (Spanish)
OTHER LITERARY WORKS

'Junto Al Pasig" (Besides the Pasig) 1880

A Filipinas (sonnet, 1880)
IAI M. R. P. Pablo Ramon (poem, 1881)
Abd-el-Azis y Mahoma (poem, 1879)
RIZAL'S VISIT TO PAKIL AND
PAGSANJAN
Summer of May 1881
Summer of May 1881 Rizal went to a pilgrimage to the town of
pakil, famous shrine of the Birhen Maria de los Dolores.

Rizal was infatuated by a pretty girl colegiala, Vicenta

Ybardolaza

1. was the native town of Leonor Valenzuela

2. To see the world famed Pagsanjan FalLS
 CHAMPION OF FILIPINO STUDENTS
In 1880, Rizal founded a secret society of Filipino students in
the University of Santo Tomas called
*Compañerismo"(Comradeship), whose members were called
"Companions of Jehu,"* after the valiant Hebrew general who
fought the Armaeans.

Galicano Apacible (Rizal's cousin from Batangas) was the

Secretary.
 CHAMPION OF FILIPINO STUDENTS
Fierce encounter near the Escolta in Manila where Rizal was
wounded on the head, and tenderly washed and dressed by
Leonor Rivera in his boarding house "Casa Tomasina".
 RIZAL’S SCHOLASTIC RECORDS (UST)
• 1877 - 1878 ( Philopsophy & Letters)
Cosmology & Metaphysics ..... Excellent
Theodicy ..... Excellent
History of Philosophy ..... Excellent
• 1878 - 1879 ( Medicine) 1st Year
Physics ..... Fair
Chemistry ..... Excellent
Natural History ..... Good
Anatomy I ..... Good
Dissection I ..... Good
 RIZAL’S SCHOLASTIC RECORDS (UST)
• 1879 - 1880 (Medicine)
Anatomy 2 ..... Good
Dissection 2 ..... Good
Physiology ..... Good
Private Hygiene ..... Good
Public Hygiene ..... Good
• 1880 - 1881 (Medicine) 3rd Year
General Pathology ..... Fair
Therapeutics ..... Excellent
Surgery ..... Good
 RIZAL’S SCHOLASTIC RECORDS (UST)
• 1881 - 1882 (Medicine) 4th year
Medical Pathology ..... Good
Surgical pathology ..... Good
Obstetrics ..... Good
 UNHAPPY DAYS AT THE UST
• The Dominican were hostile to him.
• The Filipino students were racially
discriminated by the Spaniards.
• The method of instruction was obsolete and
repressive.
RESULT:
Rizal, the most brilliant graduate of Ateneo
failed to win high scholastic grade.
 D E C IS IO N T O
D Y A B R O A D
ST U
a After finishing the Fourth Year of his medical course,
Rizal decided to study in Spain. He could no longer
endure the rampant bigotry, discrimination, and hostility
in the University of Santo Tomas. He did not seek his
parent's permission and blessings to go abroad; and even
his beloved Leonor.
T HAN K
YOU !