Miguel de Oliveira Couto, Brazilian clinician (Rio de Janeiro 01 May 1865 – Rio de Janeiro 06 June 1934)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Created the notion of hematogenous jaundice  

As icterícias originadas no sangue in Lições de Clinica Medica vol 2 (1923)

Described fatty degeneration of visceral organs or Couto’s disease

Da Polysteatose visceral curavel. Arch. Bras. Med. 4:475-83, 1914.

La polystéatose viscérale chronique. Ann. Med. Paris 22:449-59, 1927

Described Miguel Couto circular murmur, a murmur with circular propagation in serious mitral insufficiency 

Les bruits des souffle circulaires de l’insuffisance mitrale. arch. Malad. du Coeur, des Vaisseaux et du Sang, 5:717, 1912. 

Miguel Couto sign (ascitis)

Sobre uma syndrome de hypertensão gástrica. Brasil Médico (1917)      

Miguel Couto sign or cervical paresthesia in aerophagics

O síndromo cervical (parestesia coli) dos aerófagos

Miguel Couto sign or ear murmur

O sopro no ouvido (acufonia) dos aerófagos – aeroapêndice

Proposed the diagnosis of yellow fever by spectroscopic urine test

Diagnóstico precoce da febre amarela pelo exame espectroscópico da urina (1897)

Pioneered the use of methylene blue in malaria and leprosy

Les injections endo-veineuses du bleu de méthylene dans le paludisme. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 1:292-5, 1910

Valor diagnóstico da lepra pela coloração azul das placas anestésicas pelo azul de metileno

Contributed to knowledge of many subjects in clinics

A ateromasia dos cancerosos

Conceito das vagopatias na influenza

A língua negra na gripe Brasil Med (1920)

A asma gripal

A febre intermitente perene da colite mucosa (in Deutsche Med. Wochenschrift 1913)

Patogenia do triângulo paravertebral de Grocco

BIBLIOGRAPHY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Betrachtungen und Erfahungen uber Beriberi und Malaria. Arch. f. Schiffs-u. Tropen-Hyg. 30:275-84, 1926 (abstract in J.A.M.A 87:712, 1926)

Uber Einen Fall von “Hydrocephalus idiopathicus” unter der Maske des “weber’schen Symptomenkomplexes”. Sofortige Heilung durch Lumbalpunktion. Neurol. Centralblatt. 1:20, 1913

Die Febris intermittens perennis bei Colitis Mucosa. Dtsch. Med. Woch. 16 (1913)

La meralgie paresthésique de la colite muco-membraneuse. Bull. Mem. Soc. Med. Hop. Paris 29:342-53, 1913

Les injections Le souffle systolique de l’insuffisance aortique pure. Semaine Med. 26:3, 1906

With Azevedo Sodré published a classical monograph about yellow fever

Das Gelb-Fieber. In Nothnagel, H. Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie herausgegeben Von Hofrat. Vol 5, Part 2, p.181-6, 1901.

With Rocha Lima wrote chapters about yellow fever in Carl Mense’s Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten (1929) and  Nicola Pende’s  Endocrinologia, Patologia I Clinica degli organi a secrezione interna (1923-4)

HONOURS

Honorary Member, Academie Nationale de Medecine, France (1917)

Correspondant Member, Société de Pathologie Exotique de Paris (1908)