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José António Serrano
Born
José António Serrano

(1851-10-06)6 October 1851
Castelo de Vide, Portalegre, Portugal
Died7 December 1904(1904-12-07) (aged 53)
São José, Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Occupation(s)Physician and professor

José António Serrano (6 October 1851 – 7 December 1904) was a Portuguese physician and anatomist. Serrano is particularly noted for his osteological treatise Tratado de Osteologia Humana (published in two volumes, in 1895 and 1897; awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Sciences King Louis Award[1]), and for his advances in surgery in Portugal: while a distinguished surgeon in Saint Joseph's Hospital in Lisbon, he was an early follower of Lister's asseptic technique, and the first in the country to perform a laparotomic histerectomy.[2]

In the summer of 1890, Serrano and Bettencourt Rodrigues pioneered the treatment of endocrine disorders by subcutaneously grafting the thyroid gland of a sheep to treat myxedema and subsequently proposing hypodermic injections of thyroid extract to achieve the same result; their findings were overshadowed by George R. Murray's later paper published in the more accessible British Medical Journal.[3]

References

  1. ^ Cordeiro, Diogo Salema. "Personalidades: José António Serrano (1851–1904)". Fonte da Vila, Castelo de Vide – História e Património (in Portuguese). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  2. ^ "José António Serrano (1895/1896)" (in Portuguese). Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  3. ^ Loriaux, Lynn (2016). A Biographical History of Endocrinology. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 191–194. ISBN 978-1-119-20247-9.


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