Curriculum

He studied Medicine at Santiago University. In 1907, he took his degree and some years later his doctor's degree. In 1910, he returned to A Coruña and worked as a doctor on guard at the Charity Hospital, without earning any money. In 1911, he became an assistant lecturer of General Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine at Santiago de Compostela University and got that professorship in Madrid one year later. In 1928, he travelled to Cuba, where he gave several lectures and when he returned, he became a Professor of Pathology at Madrid University. In 1932, he travelled to Argentina, where he gave lectures organised by the Spanish Cultural Institute.