P E R E D A 



JOSE PEREDA 



Physician and surgeon. 



Jose Pereda y Galvez was born on 

 the twenty-sixth of January, 1872, in Con- 

 solacion del Sur, Province of Pinar del 

 Rio, whence after having fulfilled the re- 

 quirements of the Bachelorate he moved to 

 Havana and matriculated in the Medical 

 Department of the National University. 



His special leaning was toward anatomy 

 and surgery to which he devoted his entire 

 time as student and instructor. 



In 1894, he received the title Doctor of 

 Medicine and immediately began in Ha- 

 vana the practice of the profession and also 

 the institution of the "Escuela Libre de 

 Medicina," a private medical school into 

 whose teaching force he drew some of 

 Cuba's most prominent physicians. 



At the outbreak of the War for Inde- 



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