Heitor Praguer Fróes, Brazilian physician and poet (Cachoeira, Bahia State 25 July 1900 – Rio de Janeiro 26 October 1987)
Showed that the venom of Thalassophryne act as a neurotoxin
Studies on venomous fishes of tropical countries. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 36:134-5, 1933
Sur un poisson toxiphore bresilien: le “niquim” Thalassophryna maculosa. Rev. Sud. Am. Med. Chir. 3:871, 1932
Described the pathogenic fungi Actinomyces genesii 1932 & Actinomadura pelletieri 1931
Developed a new technique to compute the infestation in ancylostomiasis by means of egg counting
Nova técnica para o calculo da infestação pelos ancilostomídeos por meio da contagem dos ovos (1928)
A new formula for robustness coefficient and a table for it
Nova formula para verificação do coeficiente de robustez. J. Clinicos 4(10):150-2, 1932
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Curva microlymphocytaria no impaludismo agudo. Arch. Bras. Med. 28(10):793-7, 1928
Dermatite a Coleopteres vesicants. Nouvelle experiences et observations sur les coleopteres du genre Paederus. Arch. Ital. Sci. Med. Col. 15:481-8, 1934
Il “blu di metilene” nella terapia della malaria. Riv. Mal. 13:484-6, 1934
His father, João Americo Garcez Froes, clinician (São Francisco do Conde, Bahia State 11 October 1874 – Salvador 17 September 1964)
Described Garcez Froes cormic murmur in Sopro cormico de timbre musical e insuficiência aórtica
Proposed a formula to assess the blood pressure in O Hospital 1:59, 1916
Improved the Cropper method of detecting the malarial protozoa (Cropper-Froes method)
The rapid diagnosis of malaria. Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 1(9), 1913
Proposed modifications to Beclere radiographic dactyloscopy
Roentgen-dactiloscopia onicográfica. Brasil Med. 33:73-4, 1919
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Transient aphasia from malaria. Bras. Med. p.469, 1912
Haemodiagnosis of tropical diseases (1913)
A case of febrile quartan malaria with urticaria. J. Trop. Med. London (1921)