F I N L A Y 



CARLOS E. FINLAY 



Physician; teacher; spe- 

 cialist. 



Carlos E. Finlay, son of the famous 

 discoverer of the transmission of yellow 

 fever by the Stegomyia mosquito, was 

 born in Havana on the fifteenth ot July, 

 1868. His early studies were made at the 

 Colegio of Belen. where he completed the 

 courses leading to the Bachelor's degree, 

 after which he went to the United States, 

 entered Columbia University, and ob- 

 tained his degree in Medicine in 1889. He 

 then joined the staff of the New York 

 Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, serving 

 as Clinical Assistant and Interne until 

 1892 when he returned to Havana and 

 began the practice of his profession as eye 

 and ear specialist. In 1905 Dr. Finlay was 

 appointed Professor of Ophthalmology in 



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