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Questionable Vignette Chosen For Bank Note

DR. RAMON CARRILLO (1906-1956) was a renounced neurosurgeon, doctor of sanitation, and gold medal recipient at the Medical School in Buenos Aires. Carrillo served as the health minister for Argentina for eight years during the administration of President Juan Peron.

During the period Carrillo served in this capacity, he supervised the opening of 244 hospitals. He was successful in ending malaria and stopping an epidemic of the

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