An excellent student, he graduated from high school with outstanding grades and four years later he entered the Medical Department of the University of Buenos Aires.

[2] In the Hospital de la Residencia, lectures were given for the study of specific subjects, but many times, the teacher's house was where the classes were led with the help of figures and anatomical atlases.

On 30 October 1838, Claudio Cuenca received his medical degree and began acting as a professional [1] He then wrote a thesis which he called Booklet about sympathies in general , and obtained the title of Doctor of Medicine.

In anatomy he was consummate: being his brother the dissector, the later Dr. Salustiano Cuenca, and assistants Dr. José María Bosch and the undersigned, we have been immediate observers of his admirable skill and intelligence in the practice of scalpel.

And so, having become the personal physician and chief surgeon of the Rosas army, he dedicated himself to poetry - he carried his poems in a briefcase that he did not let go of even when sleeping, since he often used it as a pillow.

In the company was, with the rank of colonel, the Spanish mercenary José Pons Ojeda, who called himself "León de Palleja".

From the top of the viewpoint, the leaders of the Palomar ―together with Cuenca― take stock of the situation and, upon verifying the great numerical disadvantage, decide to capitulate.

Dr. Cuenca, without losing his composure, unarmed, and exhibiting the lint[3] in his hand, tried to address the head of the assailant troop, Commander Palleja and, apparently, made himself known and asked for protection for his wounded.

A poem titled Mi cara was found in a pocket of the military doctor's jacket:[1] This impassive face, stiff, shadowy, until woe is me!

According to Dr. Corbella, "the complicit silence of some characters who were actors in the taking of the Palomar and who could well [...] publicly mourn Cuenca's death but did not do so" is striking.

[4] Cuenca was buried on the spot, but eight months later, on 10 September 1852,[2] his friends had him exhumed and transferred his remains to the Recoleta Cemetery, in the vault of his sister Eulogia's family, the Mugicas.