Joaquín Laureano Dueñas Pinto, Cuban pediatrician and epidemiologist (La Habana 04 July 1859 – 06 December 1910)
Introduced the concept of reigning fevers before Achard & Bensaude
Sobre las fiebres reinantes. La Abeja Medica 1:86-91, 1892
Related scurvy and refractory megaloblastic anemias in children (190?) confirmed later
Authored dengue and glanders chapters in Encyclopaedic Treatise of Pediatrics or The Diseases of Children: a work for the practising physician - M. Von Pfaundler & A. Schlossmann (1909)
Most of his publications were reproduced or commented by famous clinical authorities in Europe and America
Consideraciones sobre los parecidos faciales. Rev. Cubana 8:499-16, 1888
Diagnostico de la fiebre amarilla (1901)
Sobre el empleo de la quinina en La Habana (1890)
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Antipyrin in asthma. Brit. Med. J. (1889)
La enterocolitis aguda primitiva en el curso de la primera infancia. La Cronica Medica 17:118-20, 1894
La alimentación de los niños. Cron. Med. Quir. La Habana 26 (1900)
Fevers in doubtful nature in infancy. J. Amer. Med. Assoc. XL (1903)
Les maladies gastro-intestinales dans l'enfance au point de vue de la pathologie tropicale. Bull. Soc. Ped. Paris (1910)
Etiologia de la tuberculosis infantil
HONORS
Elected Honorary Member, Societé de Pediatrie de Paris (1910)
Invited, Meeting of American Medical Association (1906)