Eumenes Fuguet Borregales (*)
The bioanalysts Venezuelans are proud to have as a permanent guide from 25 April 1950, his illustrious colleague, Rafael Trujillo Rangel founder of parasitology, who bequeathed substantial progress in the field. Born in the Arenal neighborhood home Rangel Municipality Betijoque 9-8, 25 April 1877. Son of Eusebio Rangel and Teresa Estrada, who died six months after the birth of José Rafael, name with which it was submitted.
our biography, he studied elementary Betijoque Merida continued to study at the diocesan seminary, then in Maracaibo which culminates with a Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Zulia on August 6, 1896. In his spare time he learned German, you would later English and French. He began studying medicine at the Universidad Central de Venezuela between September of that year and 1898. Did not complete the second year, despite its high ratings, but the learning that took in that short period of training, the lessons he received from his coach Dr. Santos Aníbal Dominici, the Pasteur Institute in Caracas, where he became familiar with the bacteriology and microbiology technique have been outside at the Department of Internal Medicine, also directed by Dr. Dominici in the Hospital Vargas, and performance that had the coach of the chairs of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, between August 1899 and April 1903, on techniques of parasitology microscopic staining of microbes the development of culture media, and inoculation of pathogens in laboratory animals, prepared him to be named, on 18 February 1902, chief of the Laboratory of Histology and Bacteriology of Vargas Hospital, developing a short but fruitful research work.
suggestion of Dr. Hernandez, one of the first ideas was to study the structure and physiology of the nervous system. His contribution to the history of medicine consisted of detailed and systematic analysis, based on the analysis of cases of hookworm infection as a cause of severe anemia in rural areas. The investigations found the parasite Necator americanus and their eggs; findings extremely useful in establishing the treatment of anemia. In late 1904, on a trip to the plains succeeded in establishing the cause of "Derrengadera" or "stupid fever" of the horses to find single-celled organisms or Trypanosomes in the blood of animals affected. Between 1906 and 1907, in Miraca near Coro, or diagnosed correctly as Bacillus anthracis Anthrax, a disease commonly known as the "cry of the goat." In March 1908, was presented at the port of La Guaira, an infectious disease, suspected bubonic plague Rangel called for due study, at first failed to isolate the causative agents. Health authorities initially declined to declare a quarantine by economic problems and close the port for thirty days. In subsequent analysis Rangel appreciated, actually it was an outbreak of bubonic plague, which caused deaths could have been avoided with recommended preventive measures, in less than a month eradicated the disease. Rangel
fell on unfounded accusations to add to his social and political antagonism, increased to lose the protection of the President Cipriano Castro, left the country due to illness in 1908. A Rangel was denied a scholarship to study tropical medicine in Europe. No defense at the official level, even attacked by friends, and complaints of owners houses that had to be burned, he developed a depressive psychosis that led him to commit suicide on August 20, 1909, ingesting cyanide in his laboratory at the Hospital Vargas, had only thirty-two years old. An unfortunate end that gave birth two months later to play "Shadows" of Sallust González Corners. Dr. Enrique Tejera
discovered a type of Trypanosoma, calling it "rangeli" in his honor. His remains were admitted to the National Pantheon on 20 August 1977. A town and parish in Trujillo, National Institute of Hygiene in the UCV, educational, health, and cultural, are honored to perpetuate his distinguished name. Many congratulations to the Bioanalysts in his day.
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