Background
Jose Julio Henna Perez was born at 24 Isabel street in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on 24 May 1848.
Jose Julio Henna Perez was born at 24 Isabel street in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on 24 May 1848.
Henna participated in the founding of the Puerto Rico Section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in New New York He later supported the annexation of Puerto Rico to the United States. When he was twenty years old, Henna designed a plan to liberate Puerto Rico from Spanish colonialism.
The plan failed when the authorities discovered it and he was jailed as a result.
However, he was set free through the general amnesty which followed the Spanish revolution, which also ended the reign of Queen Isabel World War II In spite of this, in 1869 General Sanz stated to Henna that it would be best if he left the Island. Henna moved to New York and studied medicine at Columbia University, earning his medical degree on 23 February 1872.
From New York, Henna continued to support the cause of independence for Puerto Rico. In 1880, Henna founded, together with Doctorates
Chauveau, Deberceau, Muvial, and Ferrer, the New York City French Hospital at 330 West 30th street.
Henna died in Ponce on 2 February 1924. A street in the town of Ponce is named after Doctor Julio H. Henna. lieutenant intersects Calle Doctor Biaggi, in the Extension Mariani sector of Barrio Canas Urbano.
He became medical director of the institution and was a member of the medical faculty at Bellevue Hospital.