Rodolpho Albino Dias da Silva, Brazilian pharmacist (Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro 05 August 1889 – Rio de Janeiro 07 October 1931)
Performed studies about plant chemistry aiming its medicinal uses
Described anatomically and microscopically one hundred plants of Brazilian flora
First to study microscopic preparations of Brazilian plant drugs
First to proposed figures of histological sections in a Pharmacopea (1927) but it wasn’t realized
Authored alone the first Brazilian pharmacopeia titled Farmacopéia dos Estados Unidos do Brasil (1908-20). This work earned him international renown
Authored formulations of a number of medicines for Laboratórios Granado
Showed that sapucainha (Carpotroche brasiliensis) oil as an alternate to chaulmoogra oil due to isolating chaulmugric and hydnocarpic acids from this oil
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
A coroba (Jacaranda tomentosa R. Brown). Bol. Assoc. Bras. Farm. 1(2):25, 1920
O guaicuru (Statice brasiliensis Boissier). Bol. Assoc. Bras. Farm 1(1), 1920
Questões sobre nomenclatura chimica. Bol. Assoc. Bras. Farm. 11(1), 1921
Peroba (Aspidosperma peroba Fr. Allemão). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(2):58, 1921
Plumbagináceas brasileiras (1923)
Estudo botânico e farmacognóstico da Muirapuama (Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth.). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm. 1(1):37, 1925
Cipó caboclo (Davilla rugosa Poirier). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 1(2):137, 1925
Pipi (Petiveria tetrandra Gomes). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 1(4-6):329, 1925
Sapucainha. Rev. Bras. Med. Pharm. 2 (10-11):627-46, 1926
O chaulmoograto de ethylio. Rev. Bras. Med. Pharm. 2(6):399, 1926
Doseamento da alcalinidade do líquido de Dakin. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 3(7-8):337, 1927 & 2(4):244, 1926
Oleo de capivara. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(7-9):493, 1926 & 2(5):313, 1920
Xarope de Grindelia. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(11):119, 1926
Xarope de Tolu. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(3):175, 1926
Catuaba (Anemopegma mirandum (Chamisso) De Candolle. Rev. Bras. Med. Pharm. 3(1-2):55-62, 1927
Oleo de capivara contém o vitasterol A. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm. 3(9-12):422, 1927
Reações coloridas para pesquisa das vitaminas. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 5:291, 1929
Monografia das falsas poaias do Brasil. Rev. Syniatrica 5-6, 1940