Word: portuondo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deciding eventually that the Count could not absorb the pus in the abscess, Dr. Castillo called into consultation Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo, crack surgeon, onetime president of the Cuban Federation of Medicine. Surgeon Núñez lanced the abscess. Within 48 hours out oozed a quart of accumulated blood. In a subsequent hemorrhage the Count lost another pint of blood. Packing the abscess cavity with gauze failed to stop bleeding. Drugs failed to stop it. Nothing seemed able to make the patient's blood clot. He was at the point of dying from hemophilia...
Surgery: Buenos Aires, Dr. Jose Arce; Callao, Dr. E. A. McCornack; Panama, Dr. Augusto Samuel Boyd; Mexico City, Drs. Ulises Valdes, Abelardo Monges Lopez, Jose Torres Torija; Havana, Drs. Ricardo Nunez Portuondo, Ernesto R. de Aragon...
...Spanish clubs demurred. Dr. Ricardo Nunez Portuondo, president of the Cuban Medical Delegation, pleaded in vain. Last week 500 doctors went on strike against the Spanish club clinics. Minister of the Interior Octavio Zubizarreta ordered doctors employed by the Department of Health to man the practically deserted clinics...