José Miguel Francisco de la Luz Jimenez Garcia, Mexican physician (Amozoc, Puebla 10 October 1813 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 April 1876)
HEPATIC ABSCESSES
First to describe amoebic hepatic abscess (1842) and to diagnose it in relation to bronchii (1843)
Performed the most complete clinical and anatomopathological description of hepatic abscess
Absceso del hígado en comunicación con los brônquios (1843)
Lecciones dadas en la Escuela de Medicina de México. Primera parte. Abscesos del higado (1856)
Tratamiento de los abscesos del hígado. Gac. Med. Mex. 2:12, 1866
Diagnostico diferencial entre los abscesos del hígado. Gac. Med. Mex. 10:345, 1875
Introduced hydro-abdominal succussion for treatment of hepatic abscesses
Developed Jimenez method for treating hepatic abscesses consisting of simple and repeated punctures in the liver for tapping through the intercostal spaces by the common trocar (1856)
Gave the first account of an amoebic complication in the skin (1872)
OTHERS
Distinguished typhus from typhoid fever before Jenner and proposed a new differential diagnosis
Los apuntes para La historia de la fiebre petequial o tabardillo que reina en Mexico (1846)
Sobre la identidad de las fiebres (1864)
Introduced improvements to percussion and auscultation
Reported proteinuria in Scarlet fever (1856)