Julio Díez
Julio Díez Pradere, Argentine surgeon (Buenos Aires 08 October 1895 – Buenos Aires 01 August 1963) First described lumbar sympathectomy for thromboangiitis obliterans (1932) Developed resection of lumbosacral-cervical-thoracic sympathetic for treatment of trophic diseases and gangrene of the limbs (1925) Developed techniques for gastric surgery Designed surgical instruments Eponym of Díez-Gioja method
Juan Nicolas Davalos
Juan Nicolás Davalos Betancourt, Cuban bacteriologist (Juan Gualberto Gómez, Matanzas Province 06 November 1857 – La Habana 04 December 1910) Showed Pasteurella as causative agent of moquillo or avian diphtheria in Cuba La difteria aviaria in Cuba (1904) With E. Acosta Mayor developed an improved procedure of Emile Roux for production of antidiphtheria vaccine (praised by Roux) Obtained sera against tetanus, typhoid fever, anthrax and many animal diseases Discovered higadillo and its causative agent in chickens Etiologia del higaldillo (1888) Modified the Ziehl’s solution for fast staining of microorganisms Metodo de coloración rapida de los germenes (1892) Developed a new procedure for diagnosis of diphtheria (1893) El diagnostico bacteriologico da difteria (1897) Authored Aumento de la virulencia del micróbio del muermo por la temperatura media del pais (1890), reproduced by The Lancet Idealized a new procedure for bacteriological diagnosis of leprosy Diagnostico bacteriologico de la lepra (1889) Proposed coconut water as culture medium for distinct microbes Contribución del estudio del agua de coco como medio de cultivo de diferentes gérmenes patogenos Cron. Med. Quir. La Habana (1892) Concluded that Cuban tobacco displayed less nicotine that others produced in the world Notas sobre la fermentación del tabaco. Cron. Med. Quir. La Habana 18, 1892 LINKS (Spanish) http://www.revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/2958/html_657 http://files.sld.cu/digitalizacion-bmn/files/2018/05/0045-9178.1967.0035.0018.pdf
Juan Aníbal Domínguez
Juan Aníbal Domínguez Gonzalez, Argentine pharmacist, plant chemist and ethnobotanist (San Pablo de Salta 21 May 1876 – San Pablo de Salta 18 October 1946) Studied Argentine medicinal flora, determined their constituents and its therapeutical uses Performed micrographic studies of medically important plant chemicals SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Etude pharmacologique d’une gomme appeléé brea (Caesalpinia praecox) 1900 Estudio micrografico de medicamentos simples de origem vegetal (1902) Datos para Materia Medica Argentina (1903) Note sur Tagete glandulifera Schr. 1904 Note sur deux gommes de la Republique Argentine (1904) Contribution a l’etude de la lague de la tusca Acacia cavenna Hook. et Arn. (1906) Contribution al estudio de la Krameria iluca Phil. (1909) Investigaciones analíticas sobre algunas maderas y kinos indigenas (1917) Farmacoetnologia (1918) Contribución al estudio de la composición química de las plantas argentinas (1919) El Ambay (Cecropia adenopus Mart.) 1925 Contribuciones a Materia Medica Argentina (1928) El caapi o ayachuasca (Banisteria caapi Spruce) 1931 Medicación indigena antipaludica: El ualek-eiaj o quebracho llorón (Aspidosperma quebracho blanco Schlecht. f. pendulae Speg.) 1931 Notas de folk-lore medico americano: el pichi y la hualtata (1932) El yara chucchu (Cinchona sp.): cava-chucchu o quina y sus alcaloides en el tratamiento del paludismo (1933) Contribution to the study of the ergot Sclerotium clavus DC from a plant of Tierra Del Fuego PATENTS Improvements in and relating to processes for dyeing with natural dyes (1912) A new dyeing process US1121720 (1914) HONORS Bronze International Scientific Medal, International Academy of Botany, Le Mans, France (1905)
José Pedro Duret
José Pedro Duret, Argentine medical entomologist (Buenos Aires 21 January 1913 – Buenos Aires 30 May 2007) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera/Subgenera Aysenmyia 1979 Gymnoceridion 1987 with Matile Neoaustrosynapha 1980 Paraaustrosynapha 1980 Species 53 species of Culicidae and 289 of Mycetophilidae HONORS John N. Belkin Prize, American Mosquito Control Association (1991) Genus Duretia Golbach 1984 (Coleoptera) Genus Duretina Matile 1990 (Diptera) LINKS www.mosquitocatalogo.org/pdfs/MS23NO1P066.PDF
José Alejandro DeCarlo
José Alejandro DeCarlo, Argentine entomologist (1896 – 19 June 1983) Authored at least 62 papers DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Carvalhoiella 1963 Melloiella 1935 Parabedus 1951 Pseudoabedus 1951 Sattleriella 1966 Weberiella 1966 Species 41 species of Belostomatidae 39 species of Ranatridae 36 species of Pelocoridae 7 species of Gelastocoridae 1 species of Nepidae 1 species of Ochteridae HONORS Decarloa Rivers 1969 (Hemiptera) See Rev. Soc. Entomol. Arg. 42(1-4):1-8, 1983 (list of all species described for him)
Jose Luis Duomarco
José Luis Duomarco de Pro, Uruguayan physiologist (Montevideo 27 September 1905 – Montevideo 25 November 1985) From Spanish parents Authored works on physical medicine and vascular physiology Authored over 130 papers and 2 books Described a new heart law On the relationship between end systolic volume and ventricular mechanical impulse. A new law of the heart. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 8, 1958 With A.C. Esponda & A. Asplando. On a new law of the heart. Ann. Fac. Med. Montevideo 44, 1959 Eponym of Holt-Duomarco effect WITH RIMINI Authored the first study about intra-abdominal pressure in human (1947) Important studies on venous pressure in human First to show clearly the abdomen behaves as a fluid-filled container with a flexible anterior abdominal wall (1947) Suggested that venous collapse is a hydrostatic analogy of a waterfall (1954) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P. Recarte & R. Rimini. Influencia de las presiones abdominal y toracica sobre el retorno venoso en la cava inferior. Rev. Arg. Cardiol. 11:286-95, 1944 With R. Rimini & L.P. Arboleya. Acción de la declivoterapia en algunos enfisematosos disneicos. Rev. Tuberc. Uruguay 14:231, 1946 With R. Rimini. La pressión intraabdominal en el hombre en condiciones normales y patologicas (1947) With W.H. Dillon & C.J. Wiggers. Comparison of cardiac output by direct method and Hamilton-Remington procedure. Am. J. Physiol. 154:290-6, 1948 With R. Rimini & J.P. Sapriza. Intento de apreciación de la pressión venosa efectiva por medio de La angiocardiografia. Rev. Argent. Cardiol. 17:15, 1950 With R. Rimini, A. Rodríguez, R. Burgos, J.P. Sapriza & G.H. Surraco. Contribution of angiopneumography to some problems of pulmonary physiopathology. Dis. Chest 22:539, 1952 With J.P. Sapriza, R. Rimini & G.H. Surraco. Dos casos de quiste hidático de la aurícula derecha. Diagnostico angiocardiografico. Cura quirurgica. Arch. Urug. Med. Cir. Esp. 44:148, 1954 With R. Rimini. Energy and hydraulic gradients along systemic veins. Am. J. Physiol. 178:215-20, 1954 With R. Rimini & J.P. Migliaro. Intra-esophageal pressure and the local differences in pleural pressure. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 4:133-140, 1954 With R. Rimini, J.C. Dighiero, J.P. Sapriza & G.H. Surraco. Derivación parcial de la circulación pulmonar per medio de la hyperpresión endobronquial unilateral. Hoja Tisiol. 15:197, 1955 With R. Rimini, R. Burgos, J.C. Dighiero, J.P. Sapriza & G.H. Surraco. Unilateral positive pressure breathing as a means of partial shift of the pulmonary blood flow. Dis. Chest 31:643-54, 1957 With G.E. Giambruno & A. Correa Durán. The pressure in the different zones of the pericardium. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 9:267, 1959 La insuficiencia cardiaca de la estenosis mitral. Sistole 12(34-5):23, 1961 With R. Rimini. Venous pressure of man in space. Aerosp. Med. 41:175, 1970