MESTRE 



ARISTIDES MESTRE 



Alan of science; teacher; 

 author. 



Aristides Mestre y Hevia was born in 

 Havana, on the twenty -eighth of November, 

 1865, his parents being Dr. Antonio Mestre 

 y Dominguez, one of Cuba's most eminent 

 sons, scientist and man of letters, and 

 Dolores Hevia y Romay. He obtained the 

 degree of Bachelor at the Jesuit Colegio de 

 Belen in 1880. He won the highest honors 

 in his class on that occasion and also at the 

 granting of the Licentiate in Medicine 

 (1886), the Licentiate in Physico-Chemical 

 Science (1886), the Licentiate in Natural 

 Sciences (1887), and the Doctorate in 

 Medicine (1895) from the University of 

 Havana. 



During his student days, young Mestre 

 had been much under the influence and 

 inspiration of Dr. Felipe Poey, the eminent 



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