Guerra de los Mil Días
In 1902 after the Thousand Days' War the era of aseptic surgery began. That year a group of ten physicians joined to build a modern hospital. Guillermo Gomez and Jose Maria Montoya originated the idea of creating a society and described the idea on June 22, 1902 to Nicholas Buendia, Cuellar Zoilo Duran, Hipolito Machado, Juan Evangelista Manrique, Elisha Mountain, Isaac Rodriguez, Diego Sanchez and Julio Z. Torres. These men gathered at Club Doctor and founded the Society. The Hospital of St. José. El opened on July 22, 1925, favoring the underprivileged.