Introduction:

The military medicine used to be adapted at the history and social life of each epoch. At the same time, it also lies over the traditions of the different countries. For the more to be expression at the same time of the medicine and the military sciences, it is also a reflex of the culture of each nation. Enrique Garcia Cabrera was a Cuban's painter who left us a group of attractive work that assumes the military medicine as the motivation, spotted on five esthetics and decorative pictures connected by common history.

Objective:

The present paper shows this group of pictures which form one composition about the military medicine in Cuba and its history showing in these splendid pictures its patriotic feeling.

Methods:

A bibliographic review was carried out. The analytical - synthetic, the historiography and chronological methods were used to data on the evolution of Cuban's military medicine in order to situate these pictures in their own historic context.

Conclusions:

These results contribute to enrich the historiography of Cuban's military medicine. In addition, the beautiful composition making by Enrique Garcia Cabrera offers a useful resource to the artistic appreciation teaching and it also can contribute to the education of the health professional just about integrity cultural. The present-day and future generation must guard and study deeply this composition made by Enrique Garcia Cabrera, in admiration of its author and too for all persons who have contributed to develop the Cuban's military medicine.

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