Ariston Limpingco Bautista (1906)
Physician-lung specialist, professor of medicine, philanthropist and member of te Malolos Congress; born in Sta. Cruz, Manila on February 22, 1863 to Mariano A. Bautista and Teresa Limpingco. After receiving his Licenciado en Medicina from the Santo Tomas University in 1885, he went abroad and enrolled at the Universidad Central de Madrid where he obtained his degree as doctor in medicine. While in Madrid he joined the reform movement of the Filipino expatriates. Upon his return to the Philippines he became a member of the Masonic lodge, Nilad, and was imprisoned in Fort Santiago at the outbreak of the revolution in 1896. During the second phase of the revolution he served as a delegate to the Malolos Congress. He was then named professor of clinical medicine in the Universidad Cientifico-Literario de Filipinas, and upon the establishment of its College of Medicine and Surgery in 1907, appointed professor of clinical medicine and therapeutics. Later he became the department head. He was also the founder and president of the Germinal Cigar and Cigarette Company, then one of the leading business enterprises in the country. As a philanthropist, he extended aid to various hospitals and religious institutions and in one way or another, supported the studies of promising Filipinos abroad, notably the painter Fabian de la Rosa. He died on March 3, 1928. He was married to Petrona Nakpil 1903.
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Keywords: 1906; Men and women in medicine