Carlos Arthur Moncorvo de Figueiredo, Brazilian pediatrician (Rio de Janeiro 31 August 1846 -25 July 1901)

Authored over 80 works

Discovered Wurtz papaine independently (1879)

He would have reported the first case of nodose chronic rheumatism in children (1880)

Developed whooping cough treatment by resorcin (1883)

Developed a new diagnose technique employing the stomach dilatation of children (1885)

First used analgesic exalgine in chorea treatment

Sur un cas de chorée gueri par l’emploi de l’exalgin. Bull. Gener. Therap. (1890)

Described blennorrhagic rheumatism in children

Sur Le rhumatisme blenorrhagique. La Médecine Infantile (1894)

HONORS

Cited in Prix Montyon, Academie des Sciences de France (1884)

Prix Desportes, Academie de Medecine de Paris (1886)

World Columbian Comission Prize for his book Children’s diseases and their remedies (1893)  

His son, Carlos Arthur Moncorvo Filho, pediatrician (Rio de Janeiro 13 September 1871 – Rio de Janeiro 14 May 1944)

Authored over 300 works

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THERAPEUTICS

First to use citric acid on whooping cough

O acido cítrico na coqueluche (1893)

Discovered the haemostatic properties of asaprol and first to use it in child therapeutics

Da acção hemostática do asaprol (1894)

Contribution á l’etude de l’asaprol dans la therapeutique infantile (1895)

Proposed antiseptic iodine varnish and modified the basic formula of Steresol

Novos tratamentos antisépticos (1895)

First to use methylene blue and asaprol (1896) and ichthyol (1897) on filariasis

Sur le traitement de la chylurie par l’ichthyol: les nouveau remedes (1897)

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

Invented puerimeter for assessing the children growth

Puerimetro. Brazil Médico 18:123, 1904

Novo processo de preparação dos caldos de agar-agar sem auxílio do filtro a quente (1938)

With L. Bulcão & L. Nascimento Gurgel. Da pretensa incompatibilidade dos calomelanos e do bicarbonato de sódio (1902)

SOME PAPERS PUBLISHED IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Das lymphagites dans l’enfance et de leurs conséquences. Rev. Med. Cir. (1897)

Contributo allo studio del microbio di Schaudinn nella sifilide ereditaria. La Pediatria (1906)

Note sur le traitement de la lymphagite dans l’enfance par l’ichthyol. La Med. Infant. (1898)