Alejandro Posadas


Alejandro Posadas was an Argentinian physician and surgeon specializing in pediatric surgery. He was the first person to film an operation and brought the first x-ray to the country of Argentina.
Posadas was the first person to describe coccidioidomycosis and Coccidioides posadasii was named after him.
A victim of tuberculosis, he died while studying in France in 1902 at the age of 31.