GUITERAS 



JUAN GUITERAS 



Physician; author; man of 

 science. 



Juan Guiteras was born in the city of 

 Matanzas on the fourth of January, 1852, 

 the son of Eusebio Guiteras and Josefa 

 Gener, both members of families active 

 in the higher life of Cuba. At the age of 

 seven Guiteras was enrolled in the Colegio 

 "La Empresa" founded by his father and 

 his Uncle Antonio who was at the time at 

 the head of the school. From this institu- 

 tion he graduated Bachelor in Arts in 1867. 

 At the University of Havana he came under 

 the influence of Don Felipe Poey, the fore- 

 most Cuban man of science of his time. 

 Guiteras studied Natural History under 

 him for the preparatory course in Medicine. 

 He matriculated for the first year at the 

 University of Havana, but in 1869 moved 



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