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ABREU UGARTE, Jorge Eduardo. Colonel Gustavo Pérez Abreu, forerunner of the epidemic fight in the Republic in Arms. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2022, vol.51, n.2  Epub 01-Jun-2022. ISSN 1561-3046.

The participation of doctors in the wars for the independence of Cuba in the nineteenth century is an important source of experience in military medicine. The patriotic values that characterized them are paradigms for educational work in the formation of new generations of military doctors. The physicians of the Cuban Liberator Army are recognized for practicing under difficult conditions, being courageous combatants and skilled military leaders. Among those who participated in the heroic independence, war in 1895 was Doctor Gustavo Pérez Abreu. He is precursor to the fight against infectious diseases that affected the troops. The aim of this paper is to evoke his work as a member of the military health service and to highlight his importance as a paradigm for new generations of military doctors. The synthetic historiographies and analytical method were used. This remarkable doctor served on the General Staff of Chief General Máximo Gómez Báez and was his personal physician too. He carried out missions to ensure combat actions led by the General in Chief. He also founded and organized field hospitals for the care of combatants. At the end of the war, he edited his campaign diary. It was one testimonial and patriotic document. In addition, it great has value to understand the history of the struggle of Cubans for the independence and performance of doctors and the Military Health of the Cuban Liberator Army. In this article is exalted his magnificent service to the homeland.

Palabras clave : Gustavo Pérez Abreu; Cuban Liberator Army; anti-epidemic measures; pandemic..

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