 His work had neither been translated nor presented in the few medical congresses of that time and was practically forgotten.In 1931, Italian surgeon Achille Mario Dogliotti described what he thought was a new type of regional anesthesia and was credited for some years with the discovery of epidural anesthesia.Only with the passage of time, an Argentinian scientific journal claimed recognition for the Spanish doctor, who was then given full credit by Dogliotti and the medical community.