Francisco Dominguez Roldan
Francisco Faustino de La Caridad Domínguez y Roldán, Cuban physician (La Habana 15 February 1864 – La Habana 25 April 1942) Presented a new cause of facial palsy Contribución al estudio de la paralisis facial (1904) Authored Radio, Radiologia y Electricidad Medicas (1911) that lead him to be named honorary member of American Electro-therapeutic Association METHODS With A.G. Domínguez Roldán. Un nuevo método de topografia cráneo-cerebral. Rev. Cir. Med. La Habana 7(24):573-87, 1902 Nuevo metodo de sutura en la cura radical de la hernia inguinal (1903) Nuevo tratamiento de la tiña. Rev. Esc. Med. (1904) DEVICES Aparato para la curación del hidrocele (1894) Modificación de la dermo-lampara y aplicación de los rayos Finsen en el diagnostico y tratamiento del hidrocele (1904)
Fernando Defillo
Fernando Alberto Defilló Meriño, Dominican tropical physician (Puerto Plata 27 February 1874 – Santo Domingo 29 October 1949) Performed first staining of Monilia Introduced improvements to neurohistological technique Contribución a las técnicas de laboratório no argentinas del tejido nervioso. Rev. Med. Domin.3(2):5-7, 1948 Discovered disinfectant properties of vapours of thyme, shin and cloves Discovered the curative properties of amamu (Petiveria alliacea) Isolated an alkaloid with anti-tetanic properties SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El origen de la sífilis. An. Univ. Santo Domingo 15(53-6):147-61, 1950 Discutibilidad del contagio absoluto de la lepra. An. Univ. Santo Domingo 13(45-6):133-9, 1948 Le traitement de la lepre dans la Republique Dominicaine. Presse Med. 3-4:363, 1926 Antisepsia intestinal. Thesis HONOURS Honorary Professor, Instituto de Psicologia de Lisboa, Portugal (1909) Diploma, Institute de Cancer de Paris (1928)
Fe del Mundo
Fe Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva, Philippine pediatrician (Manila 27 November 1909 – Quezón City 06 August 2011) Authored over 100 articles First female student at Harvard Medical School (1936) INVENTIONS A bamboo radiant warmer used as incubator in rural communities (1973) A photo therapy device for jaundice relieving A cloth-suspended scale to weigh infants BRAT (banana, rice, apple and tea) diet for curing diarrhea HONOURS Award, 15th International Congress of Pediatrics (1977)
Ethel Mary Doidge
Ethel Mary Doidge, English-born South African mycologist and plant microbiologist (Nottingham, England 31 May 1887 – Anerley, South Coast, Natal 22 September 1965) Identified hundreds of new fungal species and some bacterial species DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA (1921) Macowaniella Palawaniella Parastigmatea DESCRIBED (incomplete) A wilt disease of cucurbits with L.J. Kresfelder (1932) A geranium rust caused by Puccinia pelargonii zonale (1926) Doidge bacterial spot disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria (1920) A bacterial spot of citrus (1917) A bacterial blight of pear blossoms (1917) A bacterial disease of mango (Bacillus mangiferae) 1915
Ernesto Dallas
Ernesto David Dallas, Argentine physician and entomologist (1885 – 1943) Expert on insects teratology DESCRIBED Calosoma miniatura 1939 (Coleoptera) Chiasognathus grantii pygmaea 1933 (Coleoptera) HONORS Dallasimyia Blanchard 1944 (Diptera)
Ermias Dagne
Ermias Dagne, Ethiopian natural products chemist (Deder, Harar 08 June 1944 – Developed chemical compounds in isolation for use in pharmaceutical preparations With H. Thomsen, K. Heider, K. Franke et al. developed a simple, inexpensive bioassay against the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using antihelmitic active extracts of plant Hagenia abyssinica (2012) With A. Yenesew, S. Asmellash, S. Mavi et al. first to report isoeleutherol as a natural product (1994) With W. Mammo, I. Casser & W. Steglich discovered araliorhamnones, a new class of anthraquinone lactones with three adjacent C-substituents on ring C (1990) With E. Berhanu first to report aloe-emodin acetate in Liliaceae family (1985) With W. Steglich obtained the first phenyl anthraquinones (1984) With W. Steglich isolated erymelanthine, a new type of Erythrina alkaloid containing a 16-azaerythrinane skeleton (1983) With N. Castagnoli Jr. found a new metabolite of nicotine (cotinine-N-oxide) in 1972 Obtained more than 60 new chemicals from African flora SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Induli, M. Gebru, N. Abdissa et al. Antiplasmodial quinones from the rhizomes of Kniphofia foliosa. Nat. Prod. Comm. 8(9):1261-4, 2013 With A. Debeko, M. Lang, K. Polborn & W. Steglich. Four lignans from Commiphora erlangeriana. J. Nat. Prod. 65(9):1252-7, 2009 With A. Dekebo & O. Sterner. Furanosesquiterpenes from Commiphora sphaerocarpa and related adulterants of true myrrh. Fitoterapia 73(1):48-55, 2002 With A. Dekebo, L.K. Hansen, O.R. Gautum & A.J. Aasen. Two octanordammarane triterpenes from Commiphora kua. Phytochem. 59(4):399-403, 2002 With D. Bisrat, C. Codina & J. Bastida. A C,O-diglucosylated oxanthrone from Aloe littoralis. Phytochem. 48(5):903-5, 1998 With E. Yankep & Z.T. Fomum. An O-geranylated isoflavone from Millettia griffoniana. Phytochem. 46(3):591-3, 1997 With A.A.L. Gunatilaka et al. Two new cytotoxic cytochalasins from Xylaria obovata. Tetrahedron (1994) With M. Alemu & O. Sterner. Flavonoids from Euclea divinorum. Bull. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 7(2):87-92, 1993 With A.A.L. Gunatilaka & D.G.I. Kingston. Two bioactive pterocarpans from Erythrina burana. J. Nat. Prod. 56(10):1831-4, 1993 With E. Berhanu & W. Steglich. New bianthraquinone pigments from Kniphofia species. Bull. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 1(1):32-5, 1987 With W. Steglich. Knipholone: an unique anthraquinone derivative from Kniphofia foliosa. Phytochem. 23:1729-32, 1984