João de Azevedo Lage
João de Azevedo Lage, Brazilian orthopedic surgeon (Santos, São Paulo State 03 December 1920 – São Paulo 25 July 2001) CREATED/DEVELOPED Lage angled plate for osteosynthesis of trochanterian fractures (1952) Lage prosthesis for arthroplasty of coxofemoral articulation (1956), a curved shaft prosthesis with three-points support of which design presents a worldwide used principle Lage-Napoli pedicled neotectum for treatment of hip luxation and dysplasia (1985) An all-cement prosthesis With R. Godoy Moreira. A new surgical technique for intramedullary osteosynthesis of tibia in Osteosíntese intramedular de tibia. Nova técnica. (1956) A new surgical technique for wrist arthrodesis With Manlio L. Napoli a new kind of apparatus for femoral elongation and a new surgical technique for reconstruction of acetabular tectum of coxofemoral articulation Perfected decalcified homologous bone graft method New prosthesis for hip arthroplasty (1986) LINKS http://clinicalage.com/site/a-clinica/historia/
João Baptista de Lacerda
João Baptista de Lacerda, Brazilian physician, naturalist and anthropologist (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 12 July 1846 – Rio de Janeiro 06 August 1915) ACHIEVEMENTS Described snake Bothrops jararacussu (1884) Studied toxicity of snake, amphibians and plants toxins First discovered proteolytic and lipolytic enzymes in snake venoms, being the first report about occurence of enzymes in snake venom Established that snake venom is a digestive juice Provas experimentaes de que a peçonha das cobras é um succo digestivo (1881) Discovered neutralizing action of potassium permanganate on snake venom in vitro O permanganato de potassa como antídoto da peçonha das cobras. União Médica 1:514-9, 561-8, 1881 Sur le permanganate de potasse employé comme antidote du venin du serpent. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 93:466-7, 1881. Leçons sur le venin des serpents du Brésil et sur la méthode de traitement des morsures venimeuses par le permanganate de potasse (1884) Described toxic effects of cassava juice in dogs, birds and frogs Investigações experimentaes sobre os efeitos tóxicos do succo da mandioca (Manihot utilissima). 1881 Described convulsivant properties of Ichthyothere conamby, sedative properties of mulungu and paralyzant properties of abutua Discovered archaic dolichocephaly in Indians (1876) Defined the concept of Sambaqui Man O homem dos Sambaquis. Contribuição para a anthropologia brazileira. Arch. Mus. Rio de Janeiro (1885) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Anthropology Documents pour servir a l’histoire de l’homme fossile du Brésil. Mem. Soc. Anthrop. Paris 2:517-42, 1875 O homem fossil da Lagoa Santa (1881) Cranios de Maracá, Guyana Brasileira. Arch. Mus. Nac. 4:35-45, 1881 A morphologia craneana do homem dos sambaquis. Rev. Exp. Antropol. Bras. (1882) Sobre a conformação dos dentes. Rev. Exp. Antropol. Bras. (1882) Medicine Peste de cadeiras ou epizootica de Marajó, suas analogias com o beri-beri. Pathogenesia Comparada. Am.J. Medical Sciences 184:512, 1886 With A. Ramos. Le bacille icteroide et sa toxine (experience de controle). Arch. Med. Exp. Anat. Pathol. Note sur la comparison du beriberi avec nevrilite alccolique au pinte de vue clinique. Rev. Neurol. Toxinology A acção physiologica do urari. Arch. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro p.37-43, 1876 With L. Couty. Sur um nouveau curare extrait d’ une seule plante, le Strychnos triplinervia. Comp. Rend. Hebd. Acad. Sciences LXXXIX (13):582-4, 1879 With L. Couty. Le curare, son origine, son action, ses usages. Arch. Phys. Norm. Path. 2, 1880 Experiencias physiologicas com algumas plantas tóxicas do Brasil (1890) De Varis plantis veneniferis florae brasiliensis. Studium physiologicum. Arch. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 15:1-137, 1909 Remarques ethnographiques et physiologiques sur le curare (1913) Curare: prepare an moyen d’une seule plante de la familie des Menispermacées (Anospermum grandifolium Eichler) HONORS Honor Bronze Medal, Anthropology Show of Paris (1878) for his work Contribuições para o estudo antropológico das raças indigenas do Brazil (with Rodrigues Peixoto)
José Venâncio Pereira Leite
José Venâncio Pereira Leite, Brazilian physiologist (Cuiabá 11 March 1920 – São Paulo 26 December 1980) Discovered that early newborn babies require low quantities of oxygen due to Bohr effect (higher quantities can be toxic) TECHNIQUES/INVENTIONS Described a new plethysmograph (1951) With E.M. Tinoco. Early diagnosis and prognosis of shock by an original plethysmographic technique. Rev. Bras. Cir. 24(2):183-214, 1952 With C.E. Negreiros de Paiva. Artefato de estímulo. Uma técnica fácil de sua eliminação (1954) Electrolytic method for preparation of pure oxygen for physiological purposes. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 11(4):243, 1961 With R.F. Marseillan. Dourado eletrolítico de eletrodos para implantação permanente (1961) A respiration calorimeter with automated determination A digital isometric miograph (with C.E. Negreiros de Paiva) 1966 Equipment for manometry of biliary during surgery Conductivity bridges and cells for electrical measurement of human serum and plasma A continuous current source for iontophoretic purposes (with J.R. Woiski) A construction technique of chromatography columns A technique of sealing metal in glass for manufacture of many kinds of electrode Suppressing electrode for stimulus artifact Developed a coulometric method of oxygen consumption measurement (1971) With L.C. Michelini & E.M. Krieger. A new electrolyte strain gauge to study changes in aortic caliber produced by hypertension. J. Hypert. Diseases, 1981 Developed a new process for recording the in vitro activity of vascular segments described in Diewirkung des digitoxins auf isolerte segmente menslicher saphena Nebenvenen A thermostatic chambre (with J.P. Brittes) A photoelectric pletysmograph A transistorized electric integrator for analyses of pressoceptors discharges A chamber for measuring the oxygen uptake by newborn babies (1972)
José Lignieres
Joseph Leon Marcel Lignieres, French-born Argentine veterinarian and bacteriologist (Saint-Michel, Meuse Department 26 July 1868 – Buenos Aires 20 October 1933) ACHIEVEMENTS Named pasteurellosis and salmonellosis Described enteque seco or enzootic calcinosis in bovine Contribution a l’étude de la pasteurellose bovine connue em Argentine sous les nomes de “Diarrhéa” et d’”Entequé”. Bull. Soc. Centrale Med. Vet. Paris Nouv. Ser. 16:761-92, 1898 Described hemorrhagic septicemia in sheep (1898) Classified hemorrhagic septicemia Contribution à l’etude et à la classification des septicémies hémorrhagiques. Les Pasteurelloses. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 15:734-6, 1900 Described actinobacillosis, isolated Actinobacillus sp. and differentiated from actinomycosis (1902). This microbe was named Actinobacillus lignieresii in his honor With J. Spitz. Contribution a l’etude des affections connues sous le nom d’actinomycose – actinobacilllose. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 5:105, 1902 With J. Spitz. Contribution a l’etude des affections connues sous le nom d’actinomycose. Arch. Parasitol. 7:248, 1903 First description of arteriosclerosis in sheep Arteriosclerose epidemica en el ovino. Revta. Zootecn. 4(37):1-7, 1912 DESCRIBED GENERA Salmonella 1900 (Bacteria) Hemisarcoptes 1893 (Acari) EPONYMY Lignieres medium Lignieres method of vaccination Lignieres-Spitz staining method for actinobacillosis Lignieres test, a cuti-tuberculin reaction modified from Moro test Lignieres ganglia Genus Ligniera Maire & Tison 1911 (Fungi)
José Liebermann
José Liebermann, Jewish Argentine entomologist (Villaguay, Entre Ríos Province 26 December 1897 – Buenos Aires 22 October 1980) Described a new form of oviposition Sobre una nueva forma de oviposición en un acridio sudamericano, Scotussa cliens (Stal) Lieb. (Orth, Acrid. Cyrtacanth). Revta Invest. Agric. Buenos Aires 5:235-80, 1951 Described a new organ in this species El alótipo hembra de Trybliophorus modestus Bruner (Orth, Acrid, Trybliophorini) con la descripción de un organo desconocido en su septimo esternito abdominal. Anales Soc. Cien. Arg (1953) Found a natural enemy for Aphis asclepiadis Fitch Consideraciones definitivas acerca de la lucha biológica contra las plagas de la humanidad. Un nuevo enemigo natural del Aphis merii Boyer, el terrible pulgón del laurel rosa. Physis 10(35):166-70, 1930 DESCRIBED GENERA Orthoptera Chilacris 1943 Covasacris 1970 Daguerreacris 1970 with Descamps Flamiruizia 1943 Gurneyacris 1958 Nahuelia 1942 Philippiacris 1943 Uretacris 1943 Tetrixocephalus 1963 with Gurney Thysanoptera Mesopotamothrips 1931 with Gemigniani HONORS Liebermannia Sokolova, Lange & Fuka 2006 (Fungi) Liebermannacris Costa & Carvalho 2006 (Orthoptera)
José Leme Lopes
José Leme Lopes, Brazilian psychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 20 October 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 04 June 1990) Authored As dimensões do diagnostico psiquiátrico e contribuição para a sua sistematização (The dimensions of the psychiatric diagnosis – contribution to its systematization) in 1954. This monograph was important in multi-axial diagnosis field and its cover reproduced in Kaplan & Sadock Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (1995) HONOURS Honorary member, Royale Société de Médecine Mentale (Belgium) Life Member, Society for Personality Assessment (New York) LINKS http://www.abpbrasil.org.br/historia/galeria/Leme_Lopes.pdf (biobibliography in Portuguese)