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ity to those of endemic origin. In 19 16 Dr. 

 Guiteras was appointed in the International 

 Health Commission of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation to study yellow fever in South 

 America, and has continued these inves- 

 tigations up to the present year. 



He is Professor of General Pathology 

 and Tropical Diseases in the University of 

 Havana; Director of Health; President of 

 the National Board of Health; Member 

 of the Board for Infectious Diseases; 

 Member of the Academy of Sciences and 

 of the Sociedad de Estudios Clinicos of Ha- 

 vana; Honorary Member of the Association 

 of American Physicians; of the College of 

 Physicians of Philadelphia; of the American 

 Society of Tropical Medicine, and of the 

 Academy of Medicine of Caracas. 



Among the most important contribu- 

 tions of Dr. Guiteras to Medical Science 

 the following may be mentioned: he dis- 

 covered the filaria Bauer of ti in the United 

 States, 1886; he demonstrated the impor- 

 tance of mild cases in the propagation of 

 infectious diseases, especially in connection 

 with the yellow fever of children in the 



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