Medical Lieutenant Colonel Simon Oyhenart Vigneau

First Chief of the X-ray Service of the Military Hospital

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  • Augusto Soiza Larrosa Doctor. Member of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Uruguay. Honorary member and former president of the Uruguayan Society for the History of Medicine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3924-9976

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35954/SM2021.40.1.1

Abstract

The important work being in preparation, happily edited on history of diagnostic radiology in Uruguay by doctors Eduardo Wilson and Angélica Wozniak, they asked me for information on radiology at the Central Military Hospital of Montevideo and particularly about the doctor Simon Oyhenart Vigneau (1903-1985).

Simon Pelgrino Oyhenart Vigneau He was born in Montevideo on April 30, 1903, the son of Simón Oyhenart and Ana Vigneau, both natives French. In 1930, a 6th year medical student, proposed by the Director of Health Dr. Alberto Anselmi, entered as a Health Assistant (honorary) at the Military Hospital. Obtained his title of surgeon on December 31 from 1931.

Received for review: December 2020.
Accepted for publication: March 2021.

Correspondence: 21 de setiembre 2713. App. 401. C.P. 11300. Montevideo, Uruguay. Tel.: (+598) 27101418.
Contact e-mail: asoiza@adinet.com.uy

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(4) Uruguay. Dirección Nacional de Sanidad de la Fuerzas Armadas. Dpto. de Personal. Archivo. Legajo Nº 33, 20 de noviembre de 1935, Simón Oyhenart.

(5) Turnes A. Mario C. Pareja Piñeyro (1906-1985). 69 p. Disponible en: https://www.smu.org.uy/dpmc/hmed/historia/artículos/pareja_pineyro_2008.pdf [Consulta 20/01/2021].

Published

2021-06-30

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Soiza Larrosa A. Medical Lieutenant Colonel Simon Oyhenart Vigneau: First Chief of the X-ray Service of the Military Hospital. Salud Mil [Internet]. 2021 Jun. 30 [cited 2026 Apr. 18];40(1):7-11. Available from: https://revistasaludmilitar.uy/ojs/index.php/Rsm/article/view/165

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