PEREZ BEATO 



MANUEL PEREZ BEATO 



Teacher; physician; author. 



Manuel Perez Beato was born in 

 Cadiz, Spain, on the fifth of March, 1857. 

 His studies were pursued in Cadiz until 

 the fourth year of his medical course which 

 he completed in Havana in 1882, obtaining 

 the degree of Licentiate and later that of 

 Doctor of Medicine. Upon his graduation 

 he won by competition an appointment as 

 interne in the Civil Hospital of Havana. 

 Through success in later competitions he 

 won places as assistant in the Department 

 of Physics and Chemistry in the Escuela 

 Profesional of the Island of Cuba and as 

 librarian in the same school, and later as 

 assistant in the physical and meteorologi- 

 cal observatory of the Island of Cuba. 

 The greater part of his mature life has 

 been devoted to the Escuela de Artes y 



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