José Manuel Alejandro González Echeverría, Cuban physician (La Habana 24 April 1833 – La Habana 26 March 1898)

From Venezuelan father and Cuban mother  

World famous as ophthalmoscopist and epileptologist

Described pupil and retina capillaries conditions along epileptical crisis

Observed the anatomical lesions that caused paroxysmal brain discharges

Authored On Epilepsy. Anatomo-Pathological and clinical notes (1870) praised by medical international press