Donato Pérez García
Did you
know that...
* Donato
Pérez García Sr. was born over 117 years ago on the day of “Saint Donato”?
* The
name Donato comes from the latin word “Donatus” meaning he who donates, who
gives or grants.
* Over
104,750 insulin vials have been use among the three generations of Donato Pérez García medical
doctors.
* Dr.
Donato (I) joined the Mexican Army during The Mexican Revolution where he
served as a medical staff in battles against the army of Gen. Francisco
“Pancho” Villa.
* He
began his medical career on March 15th 1915 as Commissioner
Lieutenant in the Health Service in Mexico City.
* Donato
Pérez García (I) made himself learn English and French to further his medical
career. During that period, most medical books where written in English and
French Language, many weren’t yet translated in Spanish.
* In
1926, he applied for another exam that promoted him to Major Surgeon in the
Army Medical School and soon after that he became Director of the Nursing Military
College and professor of anatomy, physiology and hygiene.
* While
reading a medical magazine in his office, he came across a small article that
recounted a recent medical breakthrough: Insulin. Recently isolated by Dr.
Banting (Nobel Prize winner in Medicine) and Dr. Best, from the Toronto
University, Canada, 1922.
* Donato
suffered from health problems his entire life. No one and nothing had seemed to
come up with a cure for his gastrointestinal problems, malnutrition and
physical weakness.
* It’s
when he heard of this recent discovery of Insulin, that he began studying and conducting
his first experiment with Insulin, on himself.
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