Eurico de Azevedo Villela, Brazilian physician (Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro State 10 September 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 08 March 1962)
Described Chagasic cardiopathy
With C. Chagas. Forma cardíaca de trypanosomiase americana. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 14(1):5-61, 1922
Developed anti scorpion serum (1906)
A simple device for the application of DDT larvicide. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 40(3):353-4, 1946
His son, Eudoro Libanio Villela, biomedical researcher (Vargem Grande do Sul, São Paulo State 02 August 1907 – São Paulo 18 April 2001)
He is most known as banker
Described histopathologically the fatal cases of yellow fever in which are found accumulations of pigment in Kupffer cells (Villela bodies)
Histology of human yellow fever when death is delayed. Arch. Path. 31:665-9, 1941
Improved the Rio Hortega technique for identifying tumors (Rio Hortega-Villela method)