Juan Bautista Montoya y Flórez, Colombian physician and surgeon (Titiribí, Antioquia Department 21 April 1867 – Medellín 19 March 1937)

ACHIEVEMENTS

MEDICINE 

First described tinea nigra (1898) 

Authored Recherches sur les carates de Colombie (1898), isolating some fungi that cause carate or pinta

Authored Contribución al studio de la lepra (1910) with great repercussion

Developed Montoya y Flórez staining for differentiating gonococci

Described 2 filarial species

First to use adrenaline in cardiac failure

SURGERY (DEVELOPED)

A procedure of hystero-colpo-perineorrhaphy

Un Nuevo procedimento de histero-colpo-perineorrafia para la curación radical de La prolapso inveterado. Anal. Acad. Med. Medellín 10:84, 1902 

A new technique for correction of hydrocele

Dislocación testicular. Nueva operación para el hidrocele simple. Rev. Clin. Fac. Med. U. Antioquia 310-3, 1922

A method for surgical treatment of genital prolapse (1928)

A method of gastric resection

Modified many surgical procedures such as perineal reconstitution

Montoya y Flórez special scissors

HONORS

Montoyella Castellani & Chalmers 1907 (Fungi)