Antonio Machado Borrego

He was born in La Habana.

He began his studies in 1788 at the Convent of San Juan de Letrán with the reader fray Fernando José de Arce. There he was a student of doctor Tomás Romay in Aristotelian Text.

He graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1795. No information has been found about his internships and examination before the Protomedicato. There is a reference that during a period of "20 years he remained in the countryside," from which it is inferred that he practiced somewhere in the interior of the country.

When doctor Pedro Andreu completed his six-year term as professor of Anatomy, he presented himself as a candidate against the Latin surgeon José Govín. With three votes in favor and two against, he was granted the chair, which he assumed on February 30, 1816. On May 17 he obtained the degree of Licentiate in Medicine and two days later the degree of Doctor, in an act in which doctors Tomás Romay and Lorenzo Hernández acted as arguers.

When professor Eusebio Valli arrived in La Habana to conduct research on yellow fever, the Protomedicato appointed doctors Tomás Romay and Antonio Machado to accompany him. The latter was attending physician during the illness that led to his death.

His subsequent actions suggested that he was already tired of his practice, or that he had no interest whatsoever in the profession, because as soon as he was given an opportunity he resigned from the chair. This action coincided with doctor José Tasso taking up the position of teaching practical Anatomy at the Hospital de San Ambrosio.

From the year prior to his resignation, he had begun to study in the Faculty of Civil Law, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Laws on March 31, 1821.

He had served as Fiscal of the Protomedicato in several towns bordering La Habana such as El Cano, Guatao, and El Wajay. He died in 1844.