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to Philadelphia with his parents who were 

 obliged to emigrate on account of the sym- 

 pathies of the family with the revolution- 

 ary movement for the independence of 

 Cuba. Guiteras then entered upon the 

 study of Medicine and graduated from the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1873, taking 

 first prize for his thesis on the Development 

 of the Skeleton as Influenced by Functional 

 Activities. 



He completed a term of service as in- 

 terne in the Philadelphia Hospital, 1873- 

 74, and was Visiting Physician to the same, 

 and clinical lecturer in Medicine from 1876 

 to 1879. He soon won marked distinction 

 in his special field of Pathology; he was 

 selected by the American Government to 

 study yellow fever in Havana in 1879; in 

 the following year he was appointed Phy- 

 sician in the United States Marine Hospi- 

 tal Service; in 1886 he was made Professor 

 of Medicine in the University of Charles- 

 ton, S. C. He took a course in Pathology 

 at Frankfort, Germany, under Weigert 

 in 1889, and in the same year was called 

 to the Chair of Pathology by his Alma 



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