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Instruction, to be Assistant Professor Ex- 

 traordinary. From 1898 to 1899 he was 

 entrusted by the Faculty with the vacant 

 chair of Descriptive Anatomy. In 1900 

 the Faculty of Medicine elected him Auxil- 

 iary Professor and he won in the same year, 

 by competitive examination, the post of 

 Head Professor of Anatomy. 



In 1902 Dr. Presno was elected a member 

 of the Academy of Sciences and Surgeon of 

 Hospital " Number One. " In 1903 he was 

 made Surgeon of the Centro Asturiano 

 (Asturian Club) ; Secretary of the Section 

 of Anatomy in the Third Pan-American 

 Medical Congress held in Havana, and Vice- 

 president of the Medical Press of Cuba. 

 In 1904 he was chosen by the organizing 

 Committee of the Second Latin-American 

 Congress to represent Cuba. In 1905 he 

 was elected General Secretary of the First 

 National Medical Congress of Cuba. In 

 1906 he was appointed by the organizing 

 Committee of the Third Latin- American 

 Medical Congress to represent Cuba, etc. 

 In 191 7 he was Vice-president of the Fourth 

 Medical Congress of Cuba. 



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