Francisco Leon y Blanco
Francisco Leon y Blanco, Cuban-born Mexican pathologist (Guantanamo, Cuba 04 July 1904 – 1960) From Chinese and Spanish descent With Cuban J.A. Armenteros discovered Treponema herrejoni as etiologic agent of mal de pinto independent from Saenz & Triana (1938) Proposed modern conception of pinto and demonstrated the experimental transmission of this disease in man Estudios sobre la etiologia del mal de pinto: la transmisión experimental del mal de pinto de persona a persona. Nota preliminar. Rev. Mex. Medicina 19:17-22, 1939 Described initial and secondary lesions of pinta or mal de pinto Proposed the term pintides for disseminated secondary lesions of pinta With F. Latapí. Las lesiones del principio del mal de pinto. Una nueva dermatosis. Rev. Mex. Medicina 20:315, 1940 Eponym of Leon Blanco disease or mal de pinto
Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara
Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara, Brazilian biochemist (São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 22 June 1925 – São Paulo State 07 September 2004) Described a method to culture dipteran Rhynchosciara angelae With H. Tamaki & C. Pavan. Laboratory culture of Rhynchosciara angelae. Amer. Natur. 99:189-91, 1965 With M.C. Okretic. A micromethod for the assay of poly(A) containing RNA by gel electrophoresis. Biochem. J. 151:575-80, 1975 Discovered that DNA puffs were responsible to messengers production With M.C. Okretic & J.S. Penoni. Messenger-like RNA synthesis and DNA chromosomal puffs in the salivary glands of Rhynchosciara americana. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 178:158-65, 1977 Papers in top journals With M.F. Bonaldo & R.V. Santelli. The transcript from a DNA puffs of Rhynchosciara and its migration to the cytoplasm. Cell 17:827-33, 1979 With D.M. Glover, A. Zaha, A.J. Stocker, R.V. Santelli, M.T. Pueyo & S.M. Toledo. Gene amplification in Rhynchosciara salivary gland chromosomes. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci. 79:2497-51, 1982
Fernando Lopez y Sanchez Roman
Fernando López y Sanchez Román, Mexican surgeon and hygienist (Llaltenango, today Ciudad Sanchez Román, Zacatecas State 05 November 1854 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 May 1924) DEVELOPED METHODS Techniques for blepharoplasty and congenital luxation of crystalline lens (1892) López procedure for resection of pterygon A procedure for shoulder dislocation (1893) DEVICES Profunda artery clamps (1883) i.e. modified the clamp for facilitating the ligation of deep arteries A device for blindness simulation
Fernando Latapí
José Diodoro Fernando Latapí Contreras, Mexican dermatologist (Ciudad de Mexico 11 October 1902 – 28 October 1989) Authored over 300 papers Proposed the term pintides for disseminated secondary lesions of pinta With F. Leon Blanco. Las lesiones del principio del mal de pinto. Una nueva dermatosis. Rev. Mex. Medicina 20:315, 1940 Discovered a new disease called dyschromia en confetti caused by hydroquinones (1956) First to employ successfully sulphones for treatment of mycetomas Coined terms like early and late syphilis and corticoderma Modified Morgan scheme in syphilis Rediscovered Lucio phenomenon or necrotizing erythema EPONYMY diffuse leprosy of Lucio-Alvarado-Latapi Latapi bib sign (in Lucio-Latapi leprosy)
Fernando Lahille
Fernando Lahille, French-born Argentine naturalist and etnographer (Rouen 18 August 1861 – Buenos Aires 13 July 1940) Authored 378 papers Performed studies on general zoology and fisheries biology Developed Lahille ichthyometer (1908) DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA Tunicata Orders Aplousobranchia 1886 Phlebobranchia 1887 Stolidobranchia 1887 Class Appendicularia 1890 Families Cionidae 1887 Corellidae 1888 Kowalevskiidae 1888 Pyrosomatidae 1888 Salpidae 1888 Genus Herdmania 1888 Fossil Echinodermata Family Monophorastidae Diptera Tribe Uranotaeniinae 1904 Subgenus Lynchiella 1904 Hemiptera Genus Paradiaspis 1919 Mammalia Species Phocoena dioptrica 1912 Pisces Subfamily Gasterochismatinae 1903 Genus Crossostomus 1908 Species Galaxias elongatus 1915 Odontesthes smitti 1929 Schedophilus pacificus 1915 Torpedo puelcha 1926 HONORS Genus Lahillia Cossmann 1899 (Fossil Mollusca) Honor Diploma, World Fair of Saint Louis (1904) Golden Medal, Torino Show (1911) Silver Medal, Roubaix Show (1911) LINKS http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/15847/Documento_completo.pdf?sequence=1
Federico Lleras Acosta
Federico Pablo de la Cruz Lleras Acosta, Colombian veterinarian and bacteriologist (Bogotá 27 April 1877 – Marseille, France 18 March 1938) Father of president Carlos Lleras Restrepo and cousin of president Alberto Lleras Camargo ACHIEVEMENTS Lleras test or method for leprosy diagnosis and prognosis Lleras reaction for syphilis diagnosis Lleras Acosta technique for bacterioscopy of lymph nodes SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pruebas de la especificidad de un bacilo aislado de la sangre de leprosos. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 5(2):99-155, 1936 Algunas consideraciones sobre la biologia del bacilo de Hansen. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 1(12):925-35, 1935 Nuevas orientaciones en el tratamento de la infección puerperal generalizada por los antivírus en inyección interavenosa. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 1(6):357-70, 1932 Un caso de osteocondritis costal tifica con vacunas y antivírus. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 1(3):152-4, 1932 Diagnostico bacteriológico de la peste. Rev. Higiene 6(87), 1914 Piroplasmosis bovina (1908) Ranilla o malária bovina en la Sabana de Bogotá. Diagnostico diferencial con la fiebre carbunclosa (1908) Infecciones de la leche. Rev. Nac. Agric. 9:147-9, 1906 El carbón bacteridiano. Rev. Nac. Agric 1(6):44-8, 1906 Higiene de carnes. De las diversas condiciones que alteran la calidad de las carnes y perjudican la conservación de ellas, en las reses sacrificadas em el matadero de Bogotá (1899) Contribución al estúdio del carbón sintomático Nuevas orientaciones en el diagnostico de la tuberculosis