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endemic zone, 1887; in his teachings at the 

 University of Pennsylvania he recognized 

 the -importance of functional disturbances 

 in the development of structural changes, 

 and endeavored to establish pathology on a 

 physiological rather than an anatomical 

 basis, 1889-99; he introduced in America 

 the modern methods in Tropical Pathol- 

 ogy, founding the first chair and the first 

 journal on this specialty on the Continent 

 in 1900; he discovered the existence of 

 ankylostomiasis in Cuba; he contributed to 

 the extinction of yellow fever, and estab- 

 lished the importance of hydrocyanic 

 fumigations in the extinction of plague. 



Dr. Guiteras has edited the Selected 

 Papers of Dr. Carlos J . Finlay, published 

 in Spanish and English by the Cuban 

 Government in 191 2, and has contributed 

 to scientific journals numerous articles 

 on his specialty of Tropical Medicine, 

 most of which are highly technical. 

 Among them are: Notes on Pathology for 

 Students of the University of Pennsylvania; 

 ''Experimental Yellow Fever" (Havana, 

 1901), American Medicine; Recent Discover - 



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