Cuba, Medicine & History
The Cuban Doctor Who Found the Mosquito
How a Havana physician solved yellow fever in 1881, and why Before the Fall launches on his birthday.
October 15, 2026, 3 min read
From the archive.
Stories from five centuries of Cuban medicine, and rare books and documents from the author's collection, shared every two weeks. In English and Spanish.
Cuba, Medicine & History
Six Years: How Cuba's Medical Profession Lost Its Voice
From the December 1960 assembly to the 1966 dissolution: how Cuban physicians lost their self-governing institution.
November 24, 2026, 3 min read
Cuba, Medicine & History
The Law the Doctors Won, and the Reporter Who Covered It
How Cuban physicians built their own institutions, and the reporter who covered their victory but ran out of time.
November 12, 2026, 3 min read
Cuba, Medicine & History
Cuban Medicine in 1958: What Was There Before the Fall
Doctors, infant mortality, mutualist hospitals and real gaps: a factual look at Cuban health care on the eve of 1959.
October 29, 2026, 2 min read
Cuba, Medicine & History
From the Shelf: The Doctor Who Saw Everything but the Mosquito
A first printing from Santiago de Cuba shows how close physicians came to the mosquito 36 years before Finlay.
October 22, 2026, 3 min read
Coming next in the series
- From the Shelf: Counting the Dead of 1649
- The Hospitals Cubans Built for Themselves
- Diego Tamayo: The Bacteriologist Who Ran a Clinic for the Poor
- Hugo Roberts: Maceo's Doctor and Guardian of Havana's Port
- Máximo Zertucha: The Doctor Who Held Maceo as He Died
- From the Shelf: Who Healed Havana in the 1600s