Víctor Sevilla

From Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 597-598, Images 307-308)

SEVILLA, VICTOR

Physician and Specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. Physician and surgeon of San Juan de Dios Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital.

One still remembers, even as a student many, many years ago, the clinic of this eminent oculist, located on the Azcarraga street and shaded by the foliage of acacia trees.

As he enters the sala he feels the healthy atmosphere of the clinic. There seems to be infused into his being that grat confidents, that abiding faith in the doctor's great powers of healing the ills our flesh is heir to.

You enter the specialist's room. It is small but modern—very neat, very inviting. the doctor talks. In his voice and in his touch, you suddenly feel his magnetic power. At once you are won. Confidence is established. Thus cure is almost certain.

Are there many doctors like that? Physicians who inspire confidence? Who inject faith in the patient? Faith, as we know, i s the most miraculous healer in the world. Did not Jesus Christ Say, "According to thy faith be it unto thee"?

From Cornejo's Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 2137)

SEVILLE, Dr. Victor - Physician and Surgeon; office, 1537 Azcarraga, Santa Cruz, Manila; tel. 2-25-36; res., 39 Brixton Hill, Sampaloc, Manila; tel. 6-76-26.

Dr. Sevilla was born in Malabon, Rizal, on March 6, 1886; the son of Timoteo Sevilla and Dorotea Santos; graduated with the degree of M.D. from the University of the Philippines in 1910; went to the United States in 1911, and to Vienna, Austria in 1912, where he specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, and has since his return to the Islands in 1913 established his clinic at 1537 Azcarraga, Manila, where he is still located. He is now a widower. He belongs to no political party, and is a Roman Catholic.

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