{"id":625,"date":"2009-02-28T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:55:34","slug":"308-toribio-de-ayerza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"308. toribio de ayerza &loz;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902E01.jpg\" alt=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looming along the back wall of the cemetery, the memorial for <strong>Toribio de Ayerza <\/strong>stands out for its oversized sculptures &amp; the surrounding greenery&#8230; quite different from the norm in Recoleta Cemetery. Toribio surely saw a lot of sleepless nights, &amp; his bust reflects that. The accompanying angel gazes innocently toward the heavens:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902D05.jpg\" alt=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902D06.jpg\" alt=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Basque doctor who trained in Madrid &amp; Paris, Ayerza arrived in Argentina in 1845 &amp; brought with him the trachaeotomy&#8212;instrumental in relieving symptoms of <strong>diphtheria <\/strong>in children. The bacteria responsible for the disease causes thick mucous membranes to form in the airway. By inserting a tube in the windpipe, the patient gains valuable time for other treatment to be administered. Symbols of Ayerza&#8217;s profession &amp; those children he helped decorate the lower part of the tomb:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902D09.jpg\" alt=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902D12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200805B16.jpg\" alt=\"Toribio de Ayerza, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2977\">Guillermo Rawson<\/a>, Ayerza founded the <strong>Argentine Red Cross <\/strong>in 1880 but his public activities weren&#8217;t solely dedicated to medicine. As part of a growing Basque community in Buenos Aires, he also helped found <strong>Laurak-Bat\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212;a Basque club with a restaurant that remains popular today (Avenida Belgrano 1169). The name translates to &#8220;the four are one,&#8221; meaning that the four Basque regions of Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia, Araba &amp; Nafarroa share a common identity. The four individual coats-of-arms are combined on the front of the building along with a Basque flag:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Laurak Bat, Buenos Aires\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902E19.jpg\" alt=\"Laurak Bat, Buenos Aires\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Laurak Bat, Buenos Aires\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902E17.jpg\" alt=\"Laurak Bat, Buenos Aires\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looming along the back wall of the cemetery, the memorial for Toribio de Ayerza stands out for its oversized sculptures &amp; the surrounding greenery&#8230; quite&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=625\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">308. toribio de ayerza &loz;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}