Antonio María Pineda Bujanda, Venezuelan surgeon (Barquisimeto, Lara State 27 September 1850 – Barquisimeto, Lara State 05 October 1941)
Authored over 50 medical works
INVENTIONS
Folding operation tables
Pineda catheter
An electric thermometer (Pineda ideal thermometer)
An eye teno-neurotome used to section of optical nerve (presented in 1922)
Spatula for removal of foreign bodies in bladder
A spatula for dissections
A cautery torch
Pineda probe for urinary retention
A procedure to make refractory clay made instruments (1917)
Magic tube for poising railways