Arnaldo de Moraes, Brazilian gynecologist and obstetrician (Rio de Janeiro 28 August 1893 – Rio de Janeiro 06 April 1961)

Authored over 120 scientific articles

Considered a founding father of cervical pathology along with Navratil (c.1949)

Coined the term colpocytology

Founded Instituto de Ginecologia at Rio de Janeiro (1947)

New documentation method of surgical technics used in the Instituto de Ginecologia of Universidade do Brasil. Rev. Bras. Cir. (1954)

Proposed the combined use of colposcopy, colpocytology and histopathological examination for cervical cancer (J.P. Rieper put it into practice)

Practica do diagnóstico precoce do cancer ginecológico. Anais Bras. Ginecol. 29(3):247-50, 1950

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

With M. Peano. Local administration of antiphlogistic hormones in the treatment of tubular obstruction. Gynecol. Obst. 57(3):224-72, 1958

A case of total uterine synechia of tuberculous origin. Gynecol. Prat. 9(5):277-85, 1958

Hormonal treatment for the female climacteric symptoms. C.R. Soc. Fr. Gynecol. 26(6):349-62, 1956

The hormonal treatment of disorders of the female menopause. An. Bras. Ginecol. 41(5):261-80, 1956

Indications for total hysterectomy in non-malignant uterine diseases. An. Bras. Ginecol. 30(2):119-28, 1950

Patologia do recém-nascido

Orientação moderna em ginecologia

Apresentações transversais (Thesis)

Fisiopatologia da Infeccção puerperal (Thesis)

Propedeutica obstétrica

HONOURS

Honorary Member, Bucharest Gynecological Society

Effective Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Gynakologie (1936)

Honorary President, French Congress of Gynaecology (1949)