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Ernestina Pérez Barahona
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pérez and the second or maternal family name is Barahona.
Ernestina Pérez Barahona (Valparaíso, 8 August 1865 - 1951) was a Chilean physician and feminist activist known for being one of the first female students of medicine at the University of Chile and for being the second woman physician in Latin America, graduating just days after Eloísa Díaz.[1]
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