Introduction:

radiology, including the new ways of obtaining medical images for prognosis and procedures guidance, is one of the specialties that more scientific-technological development has experienced throughout the history of the medical sciences. It was established in Matanzas in the second decade of the 20th century by a group of precursor figures and institutions, to which were added others that have maintained the discipline up to these days.

Objective:

to rescue elements of the history of radiology in the province of Matanzas, related to those who continued the work of the precursors.

Materials and methods:

typical methods of the historical research such as analytic-synthetic and deductive-inductive were used, and well as chronological and geographic sub-methods.

Results:

thirteen records and twenty-three annotations were presented that constitute a synthetic characterization of the object of study.

Conclusions:

in the history of radiology in Matanzas, names such as those of doctors Mario Munoz Monroy and Manuel Garcia Suarez stand out in the immediate stage after precursors; the first, because of his dimension as a martyr, and the second, although he also opposed dictatorships, because of his scientific-pedagogical projection. The specialty reached its true social charge in the 1960’s, and has experienced a sustained progress, the magnitude of which has depended on external and internal limitations.

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