José Ducci Kallens, Chilean physician and inventor (Santiago 20 May 1884 – Santiago 31 October 1931)
From Italian father
INVENTED/DEVELOPED
Electrocardiographs
Devices for measuring arterial and ocular pressures
A radiological system to view organs in volume and depth
A new technique for stomach radiography
Primitive models of enteroscopic radioscopy and planography
New radiological methods
Regulator for victrolas (patented)
His son, Hector Ducci Claro, Chilean internist (15 August 1915 – 24 July 1959)
Authored 105 papers
Proposed a practical clinical classification of jaundice
With Cecil J. Watson devised a method to measure conjugated bilirubin in serum (bilirrubine reacting direct or Ducci-Watson test) 1945
Developed several laboratory techniques mainly liver function tests
Proposed the use of high doses of cortisone in fulminant hepatic failure due to viral hepatitis that standed worldwide for at least two decades as the life-saving alternative (1951)
Standardized and adapted the thymol test of MacLagan to the photoelectric colorimeters (1946-7)
With R. Katz. A simple method for the preparation of labile factor deficient plasma. Thromb. Diath. Haemor. 1(3-4):413-7 1957
With E. Taucher. Clinical experience with iodopanoic acid – a new contrast medium for cholecystography. Rev. Med. Chile 82(10):568-76, 1954
EPONYMY
Ducci colloidal red test (1947)
Ducci-Toriello technique (1951)
Ducci-Mayel reaction
See Rev. Med. Chile 127 (9):1150-2, 1999