Rubens Ferreira, Brazilian physiologist (São Paulo 13 March 1901 – Rio de Janeiro 15 March 1972)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Published nearly 180 works

Invented electric devices for studying metabolism  

Described the complex of defensive reactions in gastric mucosa (1946)

Developed electrotherapeutic methods for curing internal lesions known as metamerotherapy

Da metameroterapia. Brasil Medico 66(33-35):505-26, 1952.    

See www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/radiguet/rf.html  (in Portuguese)