And now the initial aphorism…
“An open hand is always guided by an open… heart.”
Our figure was born on August 23, 1844 in Buenos Aires, in the Belgrano neighborhood.
With limited financial resources, he was able to graduate as a pharmacist.
Later, at the age of 28, he graduated as a doctor.
He was a very serious, self-confident and very reserved man.
But at the patient’s side he was kind and very cordial in his treatment.
His great-grandfather and grandfather had also been doctors in Italy.
Recently graduated, an unusual fact, he had obtained a certain prestige as a surgeon.
With a scholarship from the government of Buenos Aires, he traveled to Paris, where he met and frequented Luis Pasteur.
And there he also met Dr. Lister, one of the main promoters of modern asepsis measures, that is, total hygiene, for surgical rooms and practices.
This contact with Lister would give our scientist the basis for the antiseptic methods that he would introduce into the country.
He returned to Buenos Aires 3 years later, earning a doctorate from the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
And he was immediately appointed full professor of the Chair of Histology and Pathological Anatomy, here in Buenos Aires.
The attire in the operating room, at his suggestion, included a long overall with short sleeves.
In this way, it replaced the old-fashioned and dirty morning coat, which was worn at that time.
Our doctor was the first director of the hospital, which today deservedly bears his name.
It is located in the Belgrano neighborhood, here in the city of Buenos Aires.
And a final anecdote.
In an emergency operation, an unexpected hemorrhage suffered by a patient made a very urgent blood transfusion essential.
But the patient had an unusual blood group and the hospital did not have that material.
Furthermore, there was almost no time to obtain it, so the life of the person operated on was being extinguished without remedy.
The surgeon who would operate decided to consult our today’s protagonist, notifying him of the almost insoluble problem he was facing.
The director of the hospital – our figure tonight – responded immediately.
-“Don’t despair, doctor. I happen to have that blood group.”
-“And you are going to give your blood, Dr.?”
-“At this moment I am not the director of the hospital.
I am a citizen who can help a fellow man.
Prepare the transfusion now, I will be in the operating room in a few minutes.”
Once this was done, the patient saved his life.
This fact clearly defines the human condition of our man today, who I consider fits this aphorism printed in the l. “O.”, with which I close this note.
“The generous person gives away something that belongs to him.
The altruist gives something of himself.”
Source: Ambito
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