D A P E N A 



ANTONIO MARIA VALDES DAPENA 



Physician; teacher. 



Antonio Maria Valdes Dapena was 

 born in the village of Regla in the Province 

 of Havana in 1879. He was educated in 

 his native place and pursued secondary 

 studies in the Institute of Havana, where 

 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts 

 in 1895 and Doctor of Medicine in 1901. 

 Since then he has held the following posi- 

 tions: Assistant, after competition, in the 

 Chair of Therapeuties and Pharmacy in 

 the University of Havana; in 1908 Assist- 

 ant head ad interim of the laboratory of 

 Therapeutics and Pharmacy of the Uni- 

 versity of Havana. In the same year, he 

 was designated by the Titular professor 

 to do the work of the Chair of Pharmacy. 

 In October of the same year he was ap- 

 pointed, after a competition, to be Assist- 



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