Francisco Río de La Loza Miranda, Mexican chemist (Ciudad de Mexico 23 January 1856 – 1901)
Son of chemist Leopoldo Río de la Loza and half-brother of Maximino Río de la Loza
Performed chemical analysis of plant species with medicinal value
Extracted the alkaloid erythrocoralloidine from Erythrina coralloides
Estudio sobre el colorín. An. Inst. Med. Nac. Rev. El Estudio 3:159-65, 1877
With E.A. Armendariz isolated the alkaloid talaumine from Talauma mexicana
Estudio del yolloxochitl Talauma Mexicana Don. Na. Inst. Med. Nac. 1:241, 1894
Isolated 31 active principles from Mexican plants such as alkaloid hymenocallin and glucoside coryamyrtine
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Materia Medica Mexicana part 1, 1894
El principio amargo del zacatechichi (Calea zacatechichi). An. Inst. Med. Nacional 1896
Pequeno contingente al estudio sobre las diastasas oxidantes. An. Inst. Med. Nacional Mex. 3:58-61, 1897
Procedimiento de separación de los principales acidos contenidos en los vegetales. An. Inst. Med. Nacional 3 (14-15): 248-52, 1898
Memorias sobre el pulque. An. Inst. Med. Nacional Mex. 8:151, 1905 (posthumous)
Maximino Río de La Loza Valderrama, Mexican pharmacist and inventor (1829-1903)
Studied the active principle of Senecio canicida
Sobre la naturaleza y propriedad del Senecio canicida llamado vulgarmente yerba de Puebla (1862)
Showed the quality of itzcuinpatli or Puebla plant (Senecio canicida) as a medication to control epilepsy.
El senecio en el tratamiento de la epilepsia. Gac. Med. Mexico 2:345-8 & 362-4, 1866
Isolated alkaloid arnicine from Heterotheca inuloides, alkaloid casimiroine from Casimiroa edulis and montanoic acid from Montanoa tomentosa (with E. Armendariz)
INVENTIONS
Some pills to cure epilepsy
A device for pharmaceutical and industrial purposes named pirofono
A process for making white lead
A device for oxygen inhalations (1877)
A continuous motion machine (1884)
A device to avoid railroad accidents (1887)
A saving furnace