One hundred years on from the establishment of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, there are still a set of determined issues left to research regarding the history of medicine and health, in addition to a lack of summarised work. We endeavour here to put forward a general view of medicine from the period spanning the Protectorate by virtue of certain issues that have received little or no attention. Three images are used as a the starting point for these brief iconographic notes: the first is the malaria map from 1941 that enables the consideration of the capacity of cartographic representations from Spanish Morocco to condition the past and present vision of the realities of medicine and health. The second, a photograph of Doctor María del Monte López Linares and her Moroccan assistant, Rahama bent Ali, gives rise to an analysis of the role of women in medicine during the Protectorate and the unique nature of the colonial link between Spanish and Moroccan people. The third, and last, image consists of two shots from the documentary Médicos de Marruecos (1949), from which the bases of the Spanish-Moroccan relations during the early period of the Franco regime are examined in more depth.
Medicine, health, the Protectorate of Morocco, maps, women, documentary film.