CANIZARES 



FELIPE GARCIA CANIZARES 



Physician; teacher. 



Felipe Garcia Canizares was born in 

 Sancti Spiritus on the fourteenth of July, 

 1872. He obtained his early education in 

 his native city, and afterwards proceeded 

 to Havana and Madrid. In 1892 he be- 

 came a member of the hospital staff of San 

 Francisco de Paulo, and in November of 

 that year, after a competitive examination, 

 he was appointed assistant in Dissection 

 in the medical faculty of the University of 

 Havana. From 1893 to 1896 he was in 

 charge of the chair of Mathematics, Phys- 

 ics, Chemistry and Natural History in the 

 Real Concilia Seminary of Havana. In 

 1895 he was appointed, after a competition, 

 a member with first honors of the "Weiss " 

 Obstetrical Clinic, and later in the same 

 year associate professor of Technical 



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