VARELA ZEOUEIRA 



JOSE VARELA ZEQUEIRA 



Physician; teacher; poet. 



Jose Varela Zequeira was born in 

 Nuevitas, Province of Puerto Principe, 

 Cuba, on the nineteenth of March, 1859. 

 His secondary education was received in 

 Spain and in Havana after which he entered 

 the University of Havana and began the 

 study of medicine. In 1887 he received 

 the degree of Licentiate. 



In the early days of his medical career 

 he was visiting physician of the hospitals 

 "La Benefica" and "Mercedes" and chief 

 of the clinic of the latter. In 1894 he 

 founded in Havana a Preparatory Medical 

 School which he directed. 



In 1897 he went to Costa Rica where he 

 was quarantine doctor at Puerto Limon 

 and edited the medical journal Gaceta 

 Medica dc Costa Rica. 



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