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future career as laryngologist and sani- 

 tarian. 



As a laryngologist he established his 

 practice in Havana and organized the 

 Throat department in the Tamayo Dis- 

 pensary and La Policlinica. He cultivated 

 this specialty thoroughly in various visits 

 to the New York Polyclinic and the Post- 

 graduate School, New York, and later on in 

 Vienna, at the Poliklinic Generate. His 

 experience of six years as general surgeon 

 to the Havana emergency stations (Casas 

 de Socorro) helped him greatly in the 

 specialty. In 1906 he was appointed, by 

 competition, Professor of Clinical Micro- 

 scopy in the University of Havana, a chair 

 which he resigned later to occupy that of 

 Laryngologist . He is at present Senior Pro- 

 fessor of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otol- 

 ogy in the University and is also in charge 

 of this Department at the General Calixto 

 Garcia Hospital. He is a Member of the 

 American Laryngological,Rhinological, and 

 Otological Society; and passed the examina- 

 tions at the University of New York admit- 

 ting him to practice medicine in that State. 



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