Rafael Salvador Gonzalez Herrejón, Mexican dermatologist (Morelia, Michoacán State 04 December 1893 – San Jose de Costa Rica January 1965)

Nephew of dermatologist Jesus Gonzalez Urueña

Demonstrated that pinta disease was a general and microbial–origin disease (1926-7)

With M. Pallares. Nuevas orientaciones para el estudio del mal de pinto (1927)

El mal de pinto (1938)

With León Blanco & Perrín identified Treponema carateum that causes pinta

Improved the technique of curing tinea employing thallium acetate (1918-9) with international acceptance

El acetato de talio en el tratamiento de las tiñas (1919)

Proved that the vitiligo was caused by a protozoa named Treponema pintoi

Mal de Pinto y vitiligo. Medicina 9:351-2, 1929

Diagnostico diferencial entre el Mal de Pinto, variedade blanca y el vitiligo. Medicina 12:515, 1932