Léon Bassereau was born in 1810 and died on March 2nd, 1888. The notorious French venereologist published books on skin and syphilis, in addition to proposing treatment for the disease with potassium iodide, winning a silver medal by the Medical Society of Paris, in 1845. https://europepmc.org/scanned?pageindex=1&articles=PMC2197464
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was born on March 7th, 1857, in Wels, Austria. He was a psychiatrist. He created malariotherapy, a treatment that consisted of injecting Plasmodium vivax (one of the causes of malaria) directly into patients’ veins to produce fever, since treponemas are likely to die due to high fever. Thereafter, patients received quinine for treatment …
Jean Alfred Fournier was born on March 12th, 1832, in Paris. A French dermatologist specialized in the study of venereal diseases. He described the “Fournier’s sign”, thinning of the distal third of the eyebrows, as a typical clinical finding of syphilis in the final part of the recent stage of the disease (secondary syphilis). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alfred_Fournier
Paul Ehrlich, born on March 14th, 1854, Strzelin, Poland, developed the drugs Salvarsan and Neo Salvarsan, the first chemotherapy drugs against syphilis, also called “magic bullet” at the time. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich
Eduardo Palassin Guinle was born on March 18th, 1846. Together with Candido Gaffrée, he created the important and remarkable Gaffrée and Guinle Hospital, with the initial objective of becoming a center of attention to venereal diseases, mainly syphilis and gonorrhea, which plagued the city of Rio de Janeiro at the time. Today, the Gaffrée and …
Sahachirō Hata was born on March 23rd, 1873. A prominent Japanese bacteriologist, he collaborated in the development of the drug Arsphenamine, in 1909, in Paul Ehrlich’s laboratory. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 and for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 and 1913. In Germany, Hata was …
Lair Guerra de Macedo Rodrigues was born on March 28th, 1943 in Curimatá, in the state of Piauí. Lair, a social and biomedical assistant, was the first director of the National STD and AIDS Program when it was created, in 1986. She specialized in public health management and sexually transmitted diseases at the Center for …
Film premier on March 30th, 2012. Starring Rodrigo Santoro and winner of several awards, “Heleno” recalls the life of Heleno de Freitas, a spectacular soccer player from Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. The athlete died at the age of 39, admitted to a sanatorium in the city of Barbacena, Minas Gerais. Heleno was diagnosed with syphilis …
Law 13.430 was enacted by President Michel Temer. The Bill (PLC 146/2015), authored by the federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro, Chico D’Angelo, originated at the VI Congress of the Brazilian Society of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, in 2006, on a proposal initiated by the doctor and professor from the Fluminense Federal University, Mauro Romero Leal …
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