Héctor Homero Muiños.

Chief of Clinic of Francisco Soca. Chief Ward Physician of the Military Hospital. Initiator of the Biomedical Library (1888-1971).

Abstract

In Montevideo, on the first day of June 1888, Héctor Homero was born to Ramón Nieves Muiños, a lighthouse director, and Isabel Bidondogaray, a housewife of Basque origin. From his mother he would have drawn a great physical resemblance and perhaps the strength that that collectivity impelled to progress, tenacious work and order. Buño found in his notebooks comments of readings destined to be used later, perhaps in speeches, medical writings or books. Such as the one he published under the title "Medicine, a noble profession".
His home was humble and his youth in the midst of economic hardship. However, the family environment must have influenced the development of his personality, since it is not common that a man of intellectual and professional gifts such as those revealed by Muiños sprouted from him.
It is not common to obtain references from students during their passage through the Faculty. The feverish course of studies and the eagerness to finish with graduation do not favor the methodical recording of the teachings received, although mere "notes", or just for a memory years later, already tarnished by the time elapsed. Muiños says "The class of students to which we belong entered the Faculty that year of 1910. In 1912 we met him [referring to Francisco Soca] as a professor". In the second year of his admission, he was already taking the Medical Clinic. "Of the dazzle we suffered - he continues - the fidelity with which we followed him in his teaching is testimony. Some of our group never again deserted his clinic. Adhering to him as a student, as deputy head of the clinic, as head of the clinic, he remained our teacher until 48 hours before his death".died suddenly on August 19, 1971 after a brief lapse of neurological symptoms.