José Arce y Arce, Argentine physician and diplomat (Lobería, Buenos Aires Province 15 October 1881 – Buenos Aires 27 July 1968)

Authored over 200 works (112 papers)

Un nouveau procédé commun à la gastrostomie et a la jejunostomie. Rev. Chir. (Paris) 32:335, 1905

Um nuevo procedimiento para el acortamiento de los ligamentos redondos en el tratamiento de las retrodesviaciones uterinas fijas. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 15:185, 1907

An endothoracic operation with preliminary pneumothorax known as operative pneumothorax or Arce method (1936)

With Ivanissevich proposed surgical methods for hydatid cysts

A new gastrostomy technique for digestive obstruction

Perfected the Alquié-Alexander-Adams method 

Eponymy

Arce ligamentopexy (1935)

Arce sign, a radiological sign for lung tumours  

Arce retractor

Posadas-Arce method for pulmonary hydatid cysts 

HONORS

Honorary Member, Physician’s Club (1922)

Gold Medal, Hamburg University (1927)

Doctor Honoris Causa, Temple University of Philadelphia (1937)

Doctor Honoris Causa, Wolfgang Goethe University, (1938)

Honorary Member, New York Medical Association (1938)

Honorary Member, Medical Society of Shanghai (1946)

Professor pro-tempore, Faculté de Medecine de Paris (1931), 

Professor pro-tempore in Bucharest (1933), Berlin & Jena (1938)  

Professor pro-tempore, Université de l’Aurore, Shanghai (1946) 

LINKS 

http://www.museoroca.gov.ar/articulosytrabajos/inmigracionhistoriaarte/arcebiovisual.pdf (in Spanish)