salvador of the twentieth century

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Biographical—The President, Dr. Manuel E. Araujo—The ex-President, General Fernando Figueroa—The Cabinet—Dr. Francisco Duefias— Don Rafael Guirola, D.— Dr. Teodosio Corranza — Dr. Manuel Castro, 11.—Dr. Cecilio Bustamente—Seiior Jose Maria Peralta Lagos —Dr. Jose" A. Castro, V.—Dr. E. Bracamonte—Dr. Miguel Duefias— Kcuor Carlos G. Prieto—Dr. Arturo Bam6n A vila. Dr. Manuel Eneique Abaujo, President of the Republic of Salvador, although a comparatively young man, has long been regarded as one of the most distinguished scholars and politicians of his time. Born at Jucuapa, he came at a very early age to the Capital, in order to study medicine and surgery, and very soon he secured a wide reputation—extending, indeed, beyond the confines of his own country—as a great authority upon special medical and surgical cases. While still quite young, Dr. Manuel Araujo was married to Senorita Maria Peralta, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of a former President of the Republic, Don Jose Maria Peralta, a man who enjoyed universal respect and aflection. The young politician was always a strong Liberal in politics, but he never permitted party spirit to prejudice him in respect to his public actions, which have, both before and since his occupancy of the Chief Magistracy, been characterized by complete independence of judgment and commendable broad- mindedness. Besides being the selected occupant ofPRESIDENT ARAUJO 37 the Presidential Chair by practically all political parties alike, Dr. Araujo is regarded as the representative of both the culture and the scientific professionalism of the country. As already mentioned, he is a very distinguished surgeon; he has also invented some very delicate and useful surgical instruments, many of which may be found in the Paris a...
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