Julio Afrânio Peixoto, Brazilian psychiatrist and coroner (Lençois, Bahia State 17 December 1876 – Rio de Janeiro 12 January 1947)

Internationally known as criminologist 

Authored 15 psychiatric works

His thesis Epilepsia e crime (1898), aroused great interest in foreign scientific circles

Sugested a protocol for autopsies like that of  Virchow. Two great names of forensic medicine Locard and Lombroso praised Peixoto’s protocol   

Inspeção de naso-faringe por um novo processo de autópsia. Gaz. Med. Bahia, 1901

Established a criterion for characterize the symptoms of paranoia

With J. Moreira. Paranoia e os syndromes paranoides. Brasil Medico (1904) & Arq. Bras. Psiq. Neurol. Cie. Afins 1(1):5-33, 1905  

Authored a work that was classified by Italian jurist and philosopher Pio Viazzi as brilliant

A herança do adultério. Arq. Jurisp. Med. Antropol. (1898)

Proposed a hymen classification based on commissures and a classification of the asphyxies in pure, complex and mixed

Authored works with international repercussion

With J. Moreira. La paranoia legitime, son origine et nature (1905) 

Novos rumos da medicina legal (1932)

Criminologia (1933)

Sexologia forense (1934)