Genaro Sisto
Genaro Sisto Pallaert, Argentine pediatrician and hygienist (Ayacucho, Buenos Aires Province 02 February 1870 – 23 August 1923) From Italian father Described Sisto sign (constant aphonic crying as a sign of congenital syphilis in infancy) Heredo-Syphilitic Cry. Ann. Med. Chr. (1909) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al estudio de la poliomielitis anterior aguda (1895) Las inyecciones epidurales como tratamiento de la enuresis o incontinencia esencial de orina: uretrocistitis blenorragica en un niño de 10 años tratado por la urotropina (1906) Conferences de pathologie infantile (1910) Les cris chez le nourissons et la syphilis hereditaire (1910) Cerebrospinal fluid in syphilitic and hereditary syphilis. Ann. Med. Chir. Infant. 2, 1910 Hygiene scolaire (1911) La acción preventiva y curativa em la lucha antituberculosa. Arch. Espan. Pediat. 11, 1919 Um nuevo caso de llanto sifilitico Profilaxis de las enfermedades infecto-contagiosas en el medio escolar HONORS Prix Perron, Academie de Medecine de Paris (1910) Gold Medal, Exposition of Social Hygiene, Rome (1912)
Gabriel Soares de Sousa
Gabriel Soares de Sousa, Portuguese-born Brazilian chronist and sertanist (Lisboa c.1540 – Bahia Province 1592) Authored Tratado Descriptivo do Brasil or Descriptive Treatise of Brazil (1587) which displays an encyclopedic character. Published only in 1851 Performed a detailed description of Brazilian flora and fauna Suggested that flies could transmit certain diseases later confirmed by Castellani (1907) Described diseases like tungiasis Identified yaws or frambesia before Piso First to describe maculo or epidemic gangrenous proctitis Gave the first report about the transmission of a infectious disease (yaws) by an insect Established the notion of contagiousness into a disease First to describe the role that play Tabanid dipterans as bloodsucking agents for man and animals and human myiasis in the dog Gave reports about morphological features of birds
Fuad Amin Sabra
Fuad Amin Sabra, Lebanese neuropsychiatrist (Beirut 13 February 1919 – 27 April 2005) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.K. Afifi. Treatment of toxic and drug induced neuropathies. Modern Treatment 5(6):1236, 1968 With H.A. Reimann. Hereditary spastic paraplegia (primary lateral sclerosis): a report of three cases in a family. Middle East Med. J. 1:75-8, 1962 Observations on one hundred cases of cerebral angioma. J. Am. Med. Ass. 170(13):1522-4, 1959 Withn H. Zellweger & Y. Green. The clinical diagnosis of inclusion body encephalitis (Dawson). Helv. Paediat. Acta 13(1):81-7, 1958 HONOURS Honorary Member, American ECG Society (1950) Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University (1963) Visiting Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical School (1968) & Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh (1969) President, Section of Neurology, International Congress of Neurology (1969) Invited to contribute chapters to Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (6th to 9th editions)
Friedrich Sellow
Friedrich Sellow or Sello, German naturalist and etnographer in Brazil (Potsdam 12 March 1789 – Belo Oriente, Minas Gerais State October 1831) Collected thousands of specimens among plants, seeds, wood samples, mammals, birds, mollusks, amphibians, fishes, worms, insects, shells, skins, bird nests, bird eggs, skeletons, anatomical pieces, cranes, rocks, minerals, ethnographic drawings and indigenous artifacts sent to German institutions DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Bignonia bellas Philodendron hastatum Salvia splendens HONORS (Plantae) Selloa Kunth 1818 (Asteraceae) Sellocharis Taubert 1889 (Fabaceae) Friedsellowia Lowe, Coiffard, Mohr & Bernardes de Oliveira 2013 (Fossil)
Francisco Soca
Vicente Francisco Soca Barreto, Uruguayan pediatrician (Soca, Canelones Department 24 July 1856 – Montevideo 29 March 1922) His parents were from Canary Islands Brother in law of surgeon Eduardo Blanco Acevedo Authored Los soplos anorgânicos de la punta del corazón en el niño (1886) Proposed the role of age in the Friedrich disease a law about pain onset in this disease (Soca law) Etude clinique sur la maladie de Friedrich (1889) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A propos d’um cas de polynévrite émetinique suive de mort. Bull. Mem. Soc. Hop. Paris 38:768, 1922 Las polineuritis emetinicas (Nota preliminar). An. Fac. Med. Montevideo (1921) Sobre los colicos hepaticos y sus mascaras gastricas. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 4:31-60, 1919 Note sur traitement de l’angine de poitrine. Arch. Mal. du Coeur (1915) Traitement du vertige de Meniere par la fibrolysine ou la antipyrinée. Bull. Mem. Soc. Med. Hop. Paris (1913) Sur La fievre hysterique. R.N. Soc. Neurol. 2:103, 1909 Sur un cas de erytheme noueux ayant dure douze ans et guéri par les injections intraveineuses de sulfate de quinine. J. Mal. Cut. Syphil. 19:321-7, 1908 Des rapports de l’asthme et de de la tuberculose. Asthme secondaire. Arch. Gen. Med. 198:353-80, 1908 Sur un cas de “paralysie dês béquilles”. Bull. Mem. Soc. Hop. Paris 2:171, 1906 Sur un nouveau cas de amyotrophie a type Charcot-Marie. Nouv. Icon. Salpetriere 15:53-62, 1902 Sur um cãs de sommeil prolongé pendant sept mois pare um tumeur de l’hypophyse Nouv. Iconogr. Salpetriere 2:101-15, 1900 With R. Bensaude. Un cas de polyadénome de type bouchnerien (1900) La tachypnee histerique secondaire. Nouv. Icon. Salpetriere 17:461-74, 1899 Laryngite estriduleuse avec tirage continu. Arch. Med. Enferm. 1:13-20, 1898 L’albuminurie dans la fievre ganglionaire. Rev. Med. Enf. (1894) Estudios medicos. El ritmo de galope (1888) Estudios medicos del tratamiento de la pleuresia purulenta en el niño (1888) De algunos progresos de la semeyotica cardíaca (1888) Historia de um caso de ataxia locomotriz sifilítica. Thesis (1883) HONOURS Foreign Associate Member, Académie Nationale de Médecine de Paris (1917)
Francisco San Roman
Francisco Javier San Román y San Román, Chilean engineer and geographer (Copiapó 1837 – Santiago de Chile 1902) From Argentine parents Gained recognition of US and European peers for his topographic charts Member of a number of scientific foreign associations With S. Muñoz, A. Chadwick & A. Pizarro authored Carta geografica del desierto y cordilleras de Atacama (1892) Collected some archaeological artifacts such as a knife in Cerro Chuculani and one vessel of Sama SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L. Sund. Estudios geologicos y topograficos del desierto y la cordillera de Atacama (1911) El Desierto y la Cordillera de Atacama (1896) two volume Hidrologia del desierto y cordilleras de Atacama (1894) La língua cunza de los naturales de Atacama (1890) Datos sobre la mineria en La Rioja y Catamarca (1871) HONORS Sanromanite Schluter, Malcherek & Pohl 2007 (Mineral)