MARTINEZ 



EMILIO MARTINEZ 



Physician; laryngologist. 



Emilio Martinez was born in Havana 

 on the thirteenth of April, 1864. His 

 father, a political refugee, went to Balti- 

 more during the Ten Years' War and for 

 this reason he took his preliminary educa- 

 tion at the public schools of that city; after 

 the war he returned to his native city and 

 entered the University of Havana where 

 he graduated as Doctor in Medicine in 

 1888. From 1889 to 1890 he was engaged 

 by General (then Major) George M. Stern- 

 berg as laboratory assistant of his com- 

 mission for the investigation of yellow 

 fever, finishing this work in the Labora- 

 tories of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore. This visit to Johns Hopkins, 

 where he studied pathology and laryngol- 

 ogy (post-graduate course) determined his 



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