Pedro Severiano de Magalhães, Brazilian physician and helminthologist (Salvador 02 July 1850 – Rio de Janeiro 09 May 1927)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Described the presence of filariae in human heart. This filaria species was named Dirofilaria magalhaesi in his honor.
Descrição de uma espécie de filarias encontradas no coração humano. Rev. Cursos Prat. Theor. Fac. Med. Rio de Janeiro 3:129-215, 1887
First to describe Black Piedra, a cutaneous disease (Horta confirmed that it was a new disease in 1911)
Uma novidade de pathologia indigena, um caso autochtone de “piedra”. Rev. Med. São Paulo 9:143-5, 1901
Coined the term microfilaria before Le Dantec
With Oscar Bulhões developed a device for anatomical injections (described in www.gmbahia.ufba.br/index.php/gmbahia/article/ViewFile/654/639)
DESCRIBED
Genus Synoecnema 1905 (Nematoda)
Thelastoma bulhoesi 1900 (Nematoda) parasite
Hymenolepis carioca 1898 (Cestoda) avian parasite
Dorcatoma bibliophagum 1907 (Coleoptera) that attack books
HONORS
Protomagalhaensia Pinto 1918 (Protozoa)
Severianoia Schwenk 1926 (Nematoda)