Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1905 — Famous Yellow Fever Expert. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Famous Yellow Fever Expert.

Dr. John Guiteras, who has taken part in every fight against yellow fever since 1881, was born In Matanzas, Cuba, In 1852. At seventeen he came to the United States and took the medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, from wfiich he graduated in 1873. Returning to Havana as a member of a commission to study yellow fever, he entered the United States marine hospital service in 1880, served during the yellow fever epidemic at Key West a year later, went to Mexico to study the disease in 1883, and as an expert on yellow fever is tbe peer of any man now living. In view of the epidemic now raging in Louisiana, this makes him of especial importance in the present crisis. In 1887 and 1888 Dr. Guiteras was professor of the practice of medicine In a college at Charleston, S. C. He was also professor of pathology in the University of Pennsylvania fer a number of years. Having been a prominent advocate of the liberation of Cuba, he returned to the land of his

birth when the war came and served on tbe staff of General Shafter as yellow fever expert in the Santiago campaign. If the frightful plague that ravages the southern climes is ever overcome. It will be by the skillful and unselfish work of such men as Dr. Guiteras. Born a Cuban, he has made bimself one of the leading physicians on the American continent. Devoted to a profession, he yet found susclent time to help free his native land. With perfect fearlessness he has risked life ’to save others. He has lived to see the dream of Cuba llbre become true and to feel that he himself is an honored representative of science in two republics.

DR. JOHN GUITERAS.