L E ROY 



JORGE LE ROY CASSA 



Physician; scientist; sta- 

 tistician; author. 



Jorge Le Roy Cassa was born on the 

 thirtieth of September, 1867, in the city of 

 Havana and there he received his education 

 the early stages in the Colegio of San Car- 

 los, the secondary courses in that of La Gran 

 Antilla where he gained the degree of 

 Bachelor of Arts in 1882, and the later 

 stages in the University where he won the 

 degree of Licentiate in Medicine in 1888, 

 and of Doctor in 1890. He went on then 

 to Paris where in her University he studied 

 with distinguished masters A. Pinard 

 (Obstetrics), Latteux (Histology, Pathol- 

 ogy, Bacteriology) , and Pozzi (Gynecology). 

 In 1893 he was a member of the staff of the 

 Necker Hospital in Paris, working with Dr. 

 Joaquin Albarran as Assistant in the Gyne- 

 cology ward. 



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