Biography of juan guiteras
Juan Guitéras y Gener, was a Cuban physician and pathologist specializing in yellow fever.
Dr Juan Guiteras....
Juan Guiteras
Cuban physician and pathologist
Juan Guitéras y Gener (or Juan Guiteras) (January 4, 1852 – October 28, 1925), was a Cubanphysician and pathologist specializing in yellow fever.
Guiteras studied medicine at the University of Havana, and moved to the United States in 1873 to attend the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated that same year.[1] He worked at Philadelphia Hospital until 1879,[2] when he went into the U.S.
Navy as a physician and began to research yellow fever, working with Stanford Chaillé and George Miller Sternberg in the Havana Yellow Fever Commission.[3] On May 5, 1883 he married Dolores Gener in Cuba.[4] He then taught at the Medical University of South Carolina[5] from 1884 to 1888, and then taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1898.
In 1893, he served as an Assistant Secretary-General at the first Pan-American Medical Congress.[6] When the Spanish–American War