S O U Z A 



BENIGNO SOUZA 



Physician; surgeon. 



Benigno Souza y Rodriguez was bom 



in the village of Macurijes, Province of 

 Matanzas, on the twenty-first of May, 1873. 



His early education, up to the completion 

 of the course for the Bachelor's degree, was 

 obtained in Havana at the Colegio "El 

 Progreso" then under the direction of the 

 distinguished scholar Dr. Carlos de la 

 Torre, whence he went to the University 

 and gained the degree of Doctor in Medi- 

 cine in the year 1900, at the age of twenty- 

 seven. 



While a student at the University he had 

 won in open competition the post of assist- 

 ant in Dissection. For six years after 

 graduation, Dr. Souza held the position of 

 Interne Physician in Hospital Number One 

 in Havana; then he became Head Physi- 



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