M A LB E R T I 



JOSE A. MALBERTI 



Physician; patriot; alienist. 



Jose A. Malberti was born on the fourth 

 of July, 1854, in Baracoa where he began 

 his studies which he afterwards continued 

 in Spain at the University of Barcelona 

 and there, in 1875, obtained the degree of 

 Doctor of Medicine. After further studies 

 in Paris, Dr. Malberti returned to Cuba 

 and entered on the practice of his profession 

 in his native town of Baracoa. There, 

 however, he became involved in the re- 

 volutionary movement of 1879 and was 

 obliged to take refuge in an American 

 schooner bound for New York. 



In 1880 he again returned to Cuba and 

 settled in Havana where he was appointed 

 physician to the Asylum for the Insane 

 (Casa de Enajenados). Here he devoted 

 all his time and energy to the study of 



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