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Juan Guiteras was born in Matanzas, Cuba on January 4, 1852, to Eusebio Guiteras and Josefa Gener, both from families prominent in Cuba’s struggle for independence.
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- Prophylaxis against yellow fever
- Notes upon the lectures on general pathology: Delivered before the third year class in the Medical Department, Univ. of Penna
- Insect borne diseases in Pan-America (2d Pan-American Scientific Congress, held in Washington, D.C., Dec. 27, 1915 to Jan. 8, 1916)
- The United States and Cuba;: A review of documents relating to the intervention of the United States in the affairs of Spanish-American colonies,
- Notes on the lectures of Prof. John GuiteÌras on general and special pathology;: Delivered before the second and third-year students of the University of Pennsylvania
Juan Guiteras
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Juan Guitéras y Gener
Juan Guitéras y Gener (or Juan Guiteras) was a physician who made many valuable contributions to the knowledge of tropical medicine. After his notable work in confirmation of the mosquito transmission of yellow fever, his principal contribution to the knowledge of that disease was his recognition of the Great importance of infantile cases.
Education
Juan Guiteras received his early education at the Colegio La Empresa in Matanzas, directed by his uncle, Antonio Guiteras.
Following his graduation in 1867, he took up the study of medicine first at the University of Havana and then at the University of Pennsylvania where he obtained his degree of M. D. in 1873.
Career
After an interneship in the Philadelphia Hospital, Juan Guiteras was appointed to the attending staff of that hospital and pursued the practice of medicine for the following six years. In 1879 he was designated by the United States government as a member of the Havana Yellow Fever Commission.
This commission was headed by Dr. Stanford Chaille of New Orleans and included Major George M. Sternberg of the army.
One of the charges put upon the commission was a study of the pathology of yellow fever and this work was assigned to Guiteras.
In 1880 he entered the Marine Hospital Service, in which he served up to 1889, reaching the grade of past-assistant surgeon.
During 1884-88 he held the chair of clinical medicine in the Medical School of South Carolina and in 1889 he was appointed to the chair of pathology in the University of Pennsylvania, holding this position until his return to Cuba in 1899.
During the Cuban war for independence (1895) he headed the Revolutionary Committee, in Philadelphia, and his home and his purse were open to his needy compatriots.
Following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he went to Cuba as acting assistant surgeon attached to the staff of General Shafter, and in this capacity participated in the Santiago campaign.
After the occupation of Havana by the American troops he was assigned to the Las Animas hospital where all cases of yellow fever were treated.
He was designated a member of a board for the diagnosis of the disease, on which he was associated with Major W. C. Gorgas of the army, Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, and Dr. Antonio Albertini, which was engaged in experimental work upon the transmission of yellow fever.
The finding of that board that the disease was transmitted by a mosquito now classed in the genus Aedes, was confirmed by Culteras the following year through independent experiments conducted at Las Animas.
Following the methods of the Reed board he succeeded in producing the disease in eight subjects, unhappily with three deaths.
Coincident with this work he was carrying out investigations upon the feasibility of immunization by a vaccine.
It took but a short time to show that vaccination was not applicable to prevention of this disease.
In 1900 he was appointed professor of pathology and tropical medicine in the University of Havana, a position which he filled for over twenty years.
The Palma government, with due regard to his talents, named him a member of the Higher Board of Health and director of Las Animas hospital.
He was director of public health in Cuba from 1909 to 1921 and president of the National Board of Health and secretary of Public Health and Charities from 1921 to the time of his death.
In 1916 he was appointed a member of the yellow-fever commission of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Free Cuba: Her Oppression, Struggle For Liberty, History, And Present Condition
(This work has been selected by scholars as being cultural...)
- Prophylaxis against yellow fever
- Notes upon the lectures on general pathology: Delivered before the third year class in the Medical Department, Univ. of Penna
- Insect borne diseases in Pan-America (2d Pan-American Scientific Congress, held in Washington, D.C., Dec. 27, 1915 to Jan. 8, 1916)
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- The United States and Cuba;: A review of documents relating to the intervention of the United States in the affairs of Spanish-American colonies,
- Notes on the lectures of Prof. John GuiteÌras on general and special pathology;: Delivered before the second and third-year students of the University of Pennsylvania
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Free Cuba: Her Oppression, Struggle For Liberty, History, And Present Condition
Membership
Among the many Cuban and American medical societies to which he belonged were the American Academy of Public Health and the Association of American Physicians.
Connections
Juan Guiteras was married on May 5, 1883, to Dolores Gener of Matanzas.
References
- Cuba y america revista mensual ilustrada.de febrero de 1909 hasta diciembre de 1909.
- Dr Juan Guiteras.apunte Biografico.primera Edicion 1947.
- Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
- VIDAS EJEMPLARES DE MEDICOS CUBANOS DR. JUAN GUITERAS APUNTE BIOGRAFICO
- The Louis A. Pérez Jr. Cuba Trilogy, Omnibus E-book: Includes The War of 1898, On Becoming Cuban, and Cuba in the American Imagination
- Homenaje a ruben martinez villena,primera edicion,1950.
- Revista de cuba,vol,X.periodico mensual de ciencias,derecho,literatura y bellas artes,la habana,cuba,1881.
- Juntos y adelantes.historia de una crisis historica,primera edicion,1942.
