T A M A YO 



dent of the first Medical Congress of the 

 Island of Cuba in 1890; joint founder with 

 Dr. Juan Santos Fernandez of the first 

 bacteriological laboratory in Cuba; he was 

 the first to teach Bacteriology in Cuba and 

 in union with Dr. Vildosola to use the 

 Pasteur treatment. For a number of 

 years he has been Editorial Secretary of the 

 Cronica Medico Quirurgica of Havana and 

 is the publisher of Vida Nueva, a magazine 

 of Hygiene and Social Science. He is also 

 the founder and director of the "Tamayo 

 Dispensary" which is a school for special- 

 ists. He has held office as Secretary of the 

 Municipal Board of Health and Secretary 

 pro tern of the General Board of Health. 



He is President of all the Medical Cor- 

 porations and has been four times President 

 of the Mutual Aid Society of the Physi- 

 cians of Cuba. He is also President of the 

 National Health Commission, Professor 

 of Medical Pathology, and Dean of the 

 Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in the 

 University. 



He was Delegate from Cuba to the Anti- 

 tuberculosis Congress held in Washington 



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