C A S U S O 



GABRIEL CASUSO 



Physician; educator; Rec- 

 tor of the University of 

 Havana. 



Gabriel Casuso was born in Matanzas 

 in 1850. He was educated partly in Ha- 

 vana, partly in Madrid, and partly in Paris. 

 He devoted himself to Medicine and gradu- 

 ated in Medicine in Madrid, in Surgery in 

 Paris, and in Dental Surgery at the Uni- 

 versity of Havana where he received the 

 Doctor's degree. 



He took part in the Ten Years' War 

 (1868-78), serving for five years with the 

 Cuban forces. 



By competitive examination he won the 

 chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the 

 Medical School and concerned himself 

 solely with university education and his 

 profession until the War of Independence 

 broke out, when he was seized by the 



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