RESUMO
Due to disseminated and metastatic non-Hodking lymphoma, Dr. César Garavagno died at the age of seventy in the city of Talca on Tuesday, September 12, 1943. The following day, he was paid a tribute in Deputies of the National Congress's chamber in Santiago. Thirteen years after his death, in 1956, Talca Hospital was named in honor of his memory, which would later become Regional Hospital. In 1959, being the first provincial surgeon not associated with a university teaching center, he was nominated Master of Chilean Surgery at the annual Surgery Congress. These have been the three posthumous tributes received that magnify and honor his memory, leaving a permanent legacy and vocation of service of medical professionals who work there today and the challenge to local surgeons to organize for third time a National Surgery Congress in Talca.