Jose Lourenço de Magalhaes
José Lourenço de Magalhães, Brazilian leprologist and ophthalmologist (Estancia, Bahia State 11 September 1831 – São Paulo 23 November 1905) Recognized abroad as a remarkable scholar on skin and blood diseases DEVELOPED METHODS Observations cliniques sur um nouveau procédé de traitment des affections oculaires au moyen d’un vaporisateur. Journ. D’Ophthalm. (1872) Proposed a new method for treatment of leprosy (1878) INSTRUMENTS Observations cliniques sur um nouveau procédé de traitment des affections oculaires au moyen d’un vaporisateur. Journ. D’Ophthalm. (1872) De la kystitomie et d’une nouvelle pince-hystitome. Journ. D’Ophtalmol. (1872) D’une pince nouvelle pour l’agrandissement pour la commissure palpebrae externe. Journ. D’Ophtalmol. (1872) Da kistitomia e dos resultados obtidos com o meu kistitómo (1874) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Etude sur la lepre (1901) Considerations sur la lepre au Bresil (1897) A morphea é contagiosa? Brasil Medico (1893) A morphea e a sua curabilidade (1885) A morphea no Brazil (1882) Patologia e tratamento da lepra (unpublished) HONOURS Correspondent Fellow, Société Medicale d’Emulation de Paris
Jose Lemos Monteiro
José Lemos Monteiro da Silva, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 24 October 1893 – São Paulo 06 November 1935) Authored 76 papers Coined the term ricketsiosis (1931) Improved the preparation methods for sera against diphtheria and tetanus Established a simple and economic technique for tetanic antitoxin production Immunização anti-tetanica pelo methodo toxoide-toxina. Mem. Inst. Butantan 2:85, 1925 Anatoxina diftérica e seu valor prático. Preparo, poder antigenico, emprego na produção de antitoxina e na prophylaxia da diphteria Mem. Inst. Butantan 3:96, 1926 Proposed the Monteiro-Godinho filtration technique Nouvelle technique pour la préparation du vaccin contre la fievre jaune C.R. Soc. Biol. 104:695-7, 1930 Developed a technique of vaccine production against Rocky Mountain spotted fever (1933) One of the firsts to show the presence of bacteriophages in rivers Presence du bacteriophage dans l’eau des rivieres de S. Paulo. Mem. Inst. Butantan 3:187, 1926 LINKS https://bibliotecadigital.butantan.gov.br/arquivos/81/PDF/1659.pdf (bibliography)
Jose Barros Magaldi
José Barros Magaldi, Brazilian clinical researcher (Tatuí, São Paulo State 23 May 1913 – 09 February 1978) Authored over 50 works His studies about arterial hypertension are classical works in international specialized literature Established a general formula for all the cases of cardiac compensation (tachycardia, dilation and hypetrophy) Os mecanismos de compensação cardíaca. Seara Médica 2(4):370, 1942 Sobre um novo tipo de bloqueio aurículo-ventricular (About a new type of atrioventricular block). O Hospital 22(5):695, 1942 With C.V. de Faria & E. Sabbaga. Técnica para determinação de substâncias anti-diuréticas (1951) First report in medical literature to reproduce in man the nephrotic syndrome by utilization of aminonucleoside in lab animals With I. Nussenzveig, C.V. de Faria & J.L. de Faria. Aminonucleoside induced nephrotic syndrome in human beings. Proc. 2nd Int. Congr. Nephrol. (1963) First report in literature about the occurrence of a true polyuria in the diuretic phase With I. Nussenzveig, E. Vasconcellos, E. Sabbaga, C. Villela de Faria, H. Pastore, T. Adachi & J.P. Rodrigues Lima. Acute renal failure produced by snake-bite of the Crotalus and Bothrops genera: occurrence of a true polyuria in the diuretic phase . IV Intern. Congr. Nephrol. (1969) Analysed the calcium and phosphate transport in each segment of Henle loop With A.S. Rocha & J.P.Kokko. Calcium and phosphate transport in isolated segments of rabbit Henle’s loop. J. Clin. Invest. 59:875-93, 1977 With A.S. Rocha. Calcium and phosphate transport in isolated segments of rabbit’s Henle loop. J. Clin. Invest. 59:975, 1977 (with good repercussion) DEVICES Modified Harrison-Grollman-William plethysmograph for experimental arterial pressure in rat tail Estudos sobre a pressão arterial experimental. São Paulo Med. (1944) Aparelho para medir a pressão arterial do rato (1950) With S. Tsuzuki, O.M. Gomes, N. Gushi, A.S. Rocha & G. Verginelli. Bomba para infusão venosa contínua com baixo fluxo. Novo modelo (1974) With D.A. Mateos Filho, S. Tsuzuki, O.M. Gomes, N. Gushi & E. Ribeiro. Novo modelo de tubo venoso para hemodiálise acoplado a uma fotocélula (1974)
Jorge Mardones Restat
Jorge Mardones Restat, Chilean pharmacologist (19 June 1908 – Santiago 03 November 1998) Authored 175 scientific publications Showed that human alcoholism displays a hereditary factor (1949). Due to this work won the Jellinek Memorial Award (1992) Made pioneering studies about the alcoholic effects on nervous system development and the pharmacological basis of addiction With E. Cruz Coke & M. Plaza de los Reyes proposed a scheme of a number of biochemical reactions in renal hypertension mechanism With R. Cruz Coke. Detection of the segment of the population vulnerable to alcoholism, by means of a genetic marker. Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam. 71(3):187-93, 1971 With S. Contreras & N. Segovia-Riquelme. A method for recognizing specific effects on ethanol intake by experimental animals. Alcohol 5(1):15-9, 1988 Papers in Science With N. Segovia , F. Alcaino & A. Hederra. Effect of synthetic thioctic or alpha lipoic acid on the voluntary alcohol intake of rats. Science 119(3099):735-6, 1954 With J. Monsalve, M. Vial & M. Plaza de los Reyes. Tissue cytochrome c and prevention of experimental atherosclerosis. Science 114(2963):387, 1951
Jorge Magnin
Jorge Magnin, French-born Argentine chemist (Annecy 22 December 1878 – ?) With Hector Bolognini. Nuevo typo de horno para fusión de vidro With E. Zappi proposed Dragendorff procedure for extraction of alkaloids from animal matter in Annal. Soc. Quim. Arg. 1:327-61, 1913 Nouvelle methode de destruction de la matiere organique par le brome, applicable à la toxicologie. Compte Rendu 2:864, 1913 Nuevo metodo de destruir una combinación organica (1911) Sobre un aparato para demonstrar la absorción de los gases por el carbón u outra substancia absorbente a bajas temperaturas (1910) Metodo de dosificación de sulfatos y de toda substancia precipitable, por medio de las densidades, aplicable especialmente a las que son de dificil filtración (1910) Magnin-Pellerano method for alkaloid sublimation Magnin-Zappi method for isolating alkaloids (1925) A device for vacuum sublimation With Hector Bolognini. Flow meter for petroleum, oils or other liquids of varying viscosity
John Muir
John Muir, Scottish-born South African physician and naturalist (Castle Douglas, Dunfries & Galloway 18 June 1874 – Riversdale, Cape Province 03 August 1947) Performed plant collections Described plant species Aristea ensifolia 1992 (Iridaceae) HONORS Muiria N.E. Brown 1927 (Aizoaceae)