Francisco GRAÑA Y REYES

Background

GRAÑA Y REYES, Francisco was born in Ma 1878 in Li. Son of Waldo Graña and Andrea Reyes. Grandson of Andrés de los Reyes, at one time provisional president of Perú.

Career

Organizer and secretary of the National Anti-Alcoholic Congress of Lima, 1902. Member of the Bureau of Public Health and director of its Boletín de Salubridad, 1903-1905. Physician of the “Dos de Mayo" Hospital of Lima, 1904.

In 1904 published an important article declaring the existence of several cases of the plague in Lima and asking the Government to take measures against it. Physician of the Infant Asylum, 1906. Founder of the first Dispensary and Infant Milk Depot in Lima.

Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of Lima, 1908. Army physician in the conflict with Ecuador, 1910. Peruvian delegate to the International Congress of School Hygiene of Buffalo, New York, 1913: surgeon of the Guadalupe Hospital of Callao, 1916.

Representative of the National Academy of Medicine to the centenary celebration of the birth of Pasteur organized by the University of San Marcos, 1922. Proposed as Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, 1922. Member of the Chamber of Deputies, 1928-1930.

Peruvian delegate to the Latin American Congress of Seville. For 23 years medical referee in Lima of The Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. Private physician of Sr.

Augusto B. Leguia, for-,,,-r nresident of Perú. With the overthrow of the latter in 1930, Dr. Graña was exiled from Peru, and removed to Panama, where he practiced medicine for the following three years. In Lima since 1934; during his several visits to the United States has studied in the best hospitals of New York and Chicago and in the Mayo Foundation of Rochester, j.

Membership

Sociedad Médica Unión Fernandina (president, 1910). Sociedad Peruana de Cirurgia (founder and president). Academia Nacional de Medicina.

American College of Surgeons (fellow since 1920). Decorations: Order of St. Patrick of Italy. Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain.

Grand Official of the Order of the Sun of Perú. Author of many articles and pamphlets on medical, surgical, and hygienic topics. Also La población del Perú a través dc la historia, said to be the most complete and important study of the problem.

Connections

Married Enriqueta Garland.

Father:

Waldo Graña

Mother:

Andrea Reyes. Grandson of Andrés de los Reyes, at one time provisional president of Perú

Spouse:

Enriqueta Garland