The Finlayism in Dr. Juan Guiteras Gener

Abstract

Commemorating the 177 anniversary of Dr. Carlos J. Finlay Barres, without any doubts the biggest Cuban physician and scientific, we made a brief historical review, with the objective of exposing the sense of comradeship and friendship professed to him by Dr Juan Guiteras Gener, who also dedicated great part of his life and work to vindicate Finlay's glory, and to defend the theory he elaborated, and was later conceptualized in the synthetic expression of finlayism. We remember some of the most prolific passages of the illustrious Matanzas physician, whose name carries the Medicine Faculty of the provincial Medical Sciences University, and whom we make justice and rend honor when calling him the founder of finlayism among his fellow countrymen.