Cnel. (Asimilado) Dr. Eduardo Blanco Acevedo
4 de marzo de 1884 - 7 de julio de 1971
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Medicine History, BiographiesAbstract
A seasoned surgeon, Eduardo Blanco Acevedo was one of the few Uruguayans with direct experience in war wounds, publicist, politician and statesman, personalist, not very tolerant and confrontational, authentic Francophile. For all these reasons he has a reserved place in our medical history of the twentieth century. He was decorated by the Republic of France for services rendered in the Great War. After Blanco Acevedo we must wait until the Second World War to have another great physician in the European war scene, Héctor Ardao (1907-1979).
Eduardo Blanco Acevedo was born and died in Montevideo, son of Juan Carlos Blanco (1847-1910) a lawyer, politician of the Colorado Party, diplomat, presidential candidate. And Luisa Acevedo Vázquez, daughter of the codifier Eduardo Acevedo (1815-1863). Of his brothers, Pablo was a renowned historian, Juan Carlos and Daniel, lawyers. His sister, Luisa married the physician Francisco Soca. His niece, only daughter of this last marriage was the writer and cultural manager Susana Soca Acevedo, founder of the literary magazine La Licorne and Entregas de La Licorne, who died in a plane crash in Rio de Janeiro.
Today, Blanco Acevedo is almost forgotten, and unknown to young physicians. But he was a great surgeon, worthy physician and director of the Military Hospital upon his return from eternal France at the end of World War I, already famous and decorated for the great professional services he rendered outside his homeland, but under the oriental flag.
Received for review: March 2015.
Accepted for publication: May 2015.
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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