Horacio Abascal
Horacio Abascal y Vera, Cuban dermatologist and medicine historian (La Habana 06 November 1899 – La Habana 08 April 1964) Authored over 450 works Described cutaneous diseases such as lentiform pontogenic tuberculid (1936) Described Abascal triad Maculas y cicatrices en los toxicomanos. Rev. Med. Sevilla 48(2):993-8, 1930 Cutaneous triad for the diagnosis of chronic toxicomania. Vida Nueva 22:371-9, 1935 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Diagnostico de las toxicomanias por la tríada cutanea (1964) Los casos de rinoescleroma estudiados en Cuba. Rev. Arg. Dermatosif. 23:200-3, 1939 El “corte” da erisipela. RBC 34:236-42, 1934 Das keloid bei der schwarzen Rasse. Cronica Med. Quir. Habana (1933) With J.M. Baralt. La parálisis general en la relación con los traumatismos. Rev. Med. Sevilla 48(2):1189-94, 1930 Uber ainhum. Ecos Españ. Dermatol. 26(3):83-6, El trabajo renal en la ureoexcreción Los arsenicales pentavalentes en el tratamento de la sífilis Primaraffekt mit langer inkubation dei malaria
Honoria Sison Acosta
Honoria Sison Acosta, Philippine gynecologist (Calasiao, Pangasinan 30 December 1888 – 19 January 1970) Gained international renown for her publications on hydatidiform mole, chorionic malignancy, toxemias of pregnancy and trophoblastic diseases Performed contributions on the origin of the lower uterine segment (1928 & 1935) Observed that hydatidiform mole cases are predisposed to pre-eclampsia Observed that choriocarcinoma may be the direct product of conception
Hernán Alessandri Rodríguez
Hernán Alessandri Rodríguez, Chilean surgeon (Santiago 07 April 1900 – Santiago 23 April 1982) Brother of former president Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed with H. Ducci improvements in Bodansky technique of alkaline phosphatase. Published more than 200 scientific papers, between them Treatment of acute hepatitis with cortisone and antibiotics in Gastroenterology 29(3): 381-390, 1955 with Hector Ducci Claro and Ricardo Katz Ugarte. This paper was regarded as year golden paper by publishers of Gastroenterology review. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H. Ducci & J. Millán. La prueba del benzoato de sodio en el estudio de la insuficiencia hepatica. Rev. Med. Chile 68:873, 1940. With R. Etcheverry, A. Nijamkin & C. Guzmán. Resultados immediatos y tardios de la esplenectomia en algumas esplenopatías. Acta Medica Scandinavica. 139 S259:231, 1951. With H. Ducci, W. Roeschmann, R. Katz, A. Spoerer & L. Toriello. Thromboembolic disease: anticoagulant therapy. Rev. Med. Chile 81(3):134-142, 1953. With R. Katz &H. Ducci. Influence of cortisone and prednisolone on hyperbilirubinemia. J. Clin. Invest. 36(9): 1370-4, 1957. With G. Dussaillant & G. Gómez. The normal kinetics of the right atrium and great veins. Hyperkinetic pattern in tricuspid stenosis and other conditions hindering emptying: an electrokymographic study. Acta Cardiol. 12(6):569-87, 1957. Recurrent digestive hemorrhage caused by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler-Weber disease). Rev. Med. Chile 86:178, 1958. With G. Maturana. Breve nota sobre un nuevo caso de distomatosis hepatica complicado con empiema vesicular. Boletín Chileno de Parasitologia 14(2); 38, 1959. With J. Allamand, G. Dussaillant, E. Moya, W. Sunkel, R. Carrasco & R. Hurtado. Myxo- ma of the right auricle with tricuspid obstruction. Surgical treatment. Rev. Med. Chile 88:209-14, 1960. With R. Katz, M. Velasco & J. Klinger. Corticosteroids in the treatment of acute hepatitis in coma. Gastroenterology 42:258-65, 1962. With R. Katz, M. Velasco & C. Guzmán. Red cell survival estimated by radioactive chromium in hepatobiliary disease. Gastroenterology 46:399-404, 1964. HONOURS Honorary Member, American College of Physicians (1968). The first Latin American person to receive such a distinction Honorary Member, Bockus International Society of Gastroenterology Correspondent Member, New York Academy of Medicine Correspondent Member, Societé Nationale Française de Gastroenterologie LINKS http://www.anales.uchile.cl/index.php/ANUC/article/viewFile/23773/25097 (biobibliography in Spanish)
Hermogenes Alvarez
Hermogenes Alvarez Bengoa, Uruguayan ginecologist and obstetrician (Nico Perez, Florida Department 1905 – Montevideo 1984) WITH CALDEYRO-BARCÍA First obtained records of intrauterine amniotic pressure during childbirth defining intensity, contraction rate, inner tonus and uterine activity (1947). These were the first records of human uterus activity during labor Established the descending triple gradient law (1949) Developed Montevideo unit of uterine performance (1949) First recorded intramiometrial pressure in distinct parts of uterus during childbirth establishing the source and propagation of wave of uterine contraction (1950) Established two kinds of contraction during pregnancy Established the concept of uterine tonus, its effects and variations Described the pain, emotions and remedies influence on uterine conductivity Independent from Edward Hon described main changes of fetal cardiac rate produced via uterine contractions which became later the basis of fetal monitoring (1958) Eponym of Alvarez-Caldeyro Barcia microballoon World Pioneer on amniocentesis and chorionic biopsy Proposed the biopsy of choral villi (1960) Discovered the existence of a coordination between both uterine hemispheres in normal labor Established the physiology of delivery Introduced the placental trans-abdominal biopsy by direct puncture (1961) Created “placental rating” Established the concept of trophoblastic development Developed the method for studying the human placenta using phase contrast microscopy
Henrique Aragão
Henrique Beaurepaire Rohan de Aragão, Brazilian microbiologist and parasitologist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 21 December 1879 – Rio de Janeiro 26 February 1956) From French ancestry Authored 171 papers Considered as world authority on Myxomatosis and Mite Systematics VIROLOGY/PARASITOLOGY Individualized the etiologic agents of alastrim and chickenpox (1911) Described smallpox, chickenpox and milkpox viroses Demonstrated the existence of elementary bodies in chickenpox known as Aragão bodies (1911) and in rabbit myxoma (1912) Discovered the etiologic agent of rabbit’s myxoma characterizing it as a virosis Characterized the myxoma infection steps Showed that rabbit’s myxoma could be transmitted mechanically by mosquito bites (1943) With A. M. Costa Lima showed that yellow fever could be transmitted mosquito to mosquito With Costa Lima performed studies about behavior of yellow fever virus in mosquito and its transmissibility requirements Established the identity of African and American virus of yellow fever First demonstrated experimentally the possibility of transmission of Leishmania brasiliensis by Phlebotomus sp. independently from Sergent studies in Algeria (1922) ZOOLOGY Discovered the exo-erythrocytary cycle of Haemosporidia when elucidated the life cycle of Haemoproteus columbae (1906) Discovered the parthenogenetic reproduction of Ixodidae mites DESCRIBED TAXA Bacteria Genus Calymmatobacterium 1912 with Vianna Species Calymmatobacterium granulomatis 1912 with Vianna (etiologic agent of granuloma inguinale) Protozoa Valid Genera Polytomella 1910 Copromastix 1916 Species Amoeba diplomitotica 1909 Atoxoplasma adiei 1911 Atoxoplasma serini 1933 Atoxoplasma sporophilae 1911 Atoxoplasma sicalidis 1911 Copromastix prowazeki 1916 Entamoeba brasiliensis 1912 Hepatozoon alticorae 1911 Hepatozoon paroariae 1911 Hepatozoon rhamphocoeli 1911 Phytomonas françai 1927 Plasmodium diploglossi 1909 with Neiva Plasmodium tropiduri 1909 with Neiva Polytomella agilis 1909 Treponema minimum 1913 with Vianna Acari Family Nuttallielidae Species Amblyomma agamum 1912 Amblyomma brasiliensis 1908 Amblyomma conspicuum 1912 Amblyomma lutzi 1908 Amblyomma mantiquirense 1908 Amblyomma minutum 1909 Amblyomma pacae 1911 Amblyomma parkeri 1952 with Fonseca Amblyomma parvum 1908 Amblyomma pseudoconcolor 1908 Dermacentor triangulus 1935 Haemaphysalis kochi 1908 Haemaphysalis proxima 1909 Ixodes cooleyi 1951 with Fonseca Ixodes didelphidis 1952 with Fonseca Ixodes schulzei 1951 with Fonseca Ornithodoros brasiliensis 1923 Ornithodoros rostratus 1911 METHODS Established the protection test in Rhesus monkeys for diagnosis of yellow fever Employed a protective test technique on the monkey for the retrospective diagnosis of human infections Showed the living virus requirement for immunization against yellow fever Simplified technique of vaccination with serum and with living cerebral virus Developed a vaccine against spirillosis in chickens (1907) patented in 1915 Prepared an efficient vaccine against Treponema gallinarum (1911) First employed formaldehyde as a vaccine sterilizer (1911) A method for bacteriological diagnosis of plague in only 16 hours With H. da Rocha Lima. Nova técnica para o diagnóstico da “peste”. Ann. Braz. Med. (1906) Developed a method for diagnosis and conservation of parasites in blood and faeces using a modified Thoma’s fluid Novo Methodo para facilitar o diagnostico e a conservação dos embryões de filaria no sangue e de parasitas nas fezes. Brasil Médico 33(2):9, 1918 Aragão solution or liquid for examining amebic cysts EPONYMS Aragão-Vianna bacterium (Calymmatobacterium granulomatis) Aragão bodies HONORS Honorary Member, Société de Pathologie Exotique, France Bernhard Nocht Medal DID YOU KNOW? He suggested Australian government that myxomatosis virus should be used for rabbit control that was adopted decades later (1919) LINKS http://www.scielo.br/pdf/mioc/v53n2-3-4/tomo53(f2-3-4)_006-020.pdf (bibliography) His son, Mário de Beaurepaire Aragão, parasitologist (Rio de Janeiro 10 May 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 01 October 1999) With N. Margem & E. Frota-Pessoa. A new radioactive method for marking mosquitoes and its application. Proc. Geneve Conference on Peaceful Applications of Atomic Energy. page 40, 1955. HONORS Mariostrongylus Teixeira de Freitas & Franco 1967 (Nematoda)
Heitor Annes Dias
Heitor Annes Dias, Brazilian internist (Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul State 19 July 1884 – Rio de Janeiro 07 November 1943) ACHIEVEMENTS Presented his theory on convulsive uremia (1922) Proposed two new symptoms, the stomatic mycosis and hiccough of the uremic people to cardiac asthma (1926) Described clinical forms of acidosis and related spondylosis to nutritional disturbances First to describe peritoneal syndrome of acidosis and duodenal colic Described Annes Dias syndrome combining hiccough, acidosis and oral candidiasis in Lições de Clinica Medica II serie, 1933.