Carlos Juan Finlay ( Spanish Carlos Juan Finlay ; December 3, 1833, Puerto Principe , Cuba - August 20, 1915, Havana , Cuba) - a Spanish-Cuban doctor and scientist, recognized as a pioneer in the study of yellow fever .
| Carlos Juan Finlay | |
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| isp. Carlos juan finlay | |
 Carlos Juan Finlay | |
| Date of Birth | December 3, 1833 |
| Place of Birth | Puerto Principe , Cuba |
| Date of death | August 19, 1915 (81 year) |
| Place of death | Havana , Cuba |
| A country |  Cuba |
| Scientific field | the medicine |
| Alma mater | Thomas Jefferson University |
| Awards and prizes | Legion of Honor |
Biography
Juan Carlos Finlay-i-Barre was born in Puerto Principe (now Camagüey) in Cuba on December 3, 1833. At that time, Cuba was a colony of the kingdom of Spain. He later changed the order of his names to Carlos Juan. In 1853 he entered the Thomas Jefferson University College of Medicine in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1855. He continued his education in Havana and Paris . After settling in Havana and opened a medical practice.
As early as 1881, he was the first to assume that a certain mosquito is the carrier and carrier of yellow fever. The following year, he discovered the form of a mosquito - a carrier of the disease. Finley's opinion on the role of mosquitoes in the transfer of yellow fever ran into misunderstanding. Concrete experimental evidence was required of him, but he could not present them. And although he decided to experiment, in which the blood of healthy people who arrived from Europe, sucked just infected mosquitoes - but received a negative result. Subsequently, it was found out that the mosquito becomes infectious not immediately, but only after a certain time, and that a negative result, which he was unable to explain, did not at all refute his point of view [1] .
His research was recognized in 1900, when Walter Reed experimentally proved his theory. Although the fame of the "winner of yellow fever" entrenched with Reed, he himself repeatedly mentioned the exceptional role of Finlay in his discovery [2] .
Carlos Juan Finlay was Cuba's Chief Medical Officer from 1902 to 1909. Vaccinated against yellow fever. In the municipality of Marianao, now within the precincts of Havana, an obelisk is installed in his honor with a top syringe. In 1981, Finlay was also depicted on the Cuban mark. A monument in his honor is in Panama , near the canal , which was built largely due to yellow fever vaccination. There is a UNESCO Prize for Microbiology named after Carlos Juan Finlay.
Finlay was a member of the Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences in Havana. He was fluent in French, German, Spanish and English and could read Latin. Author of numerous scientific articles, investigated leprosy, cholera, plant diseases. However, his main scientific interest was yellow fever, to which he dedicated 40 articles. Finlay was a doctor by vocation, treated at his own expense patients who could not afford medical care. He was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , but was never awarded. He received the Order of the Legion of Honor of France in 1908. He died of a stroke in his house in Havana in Cuba on August 20, 1915.
Notes
- ↑ Daniel M. - The secret paths of death carriers . - Progress, 1990. ISBN 5-01-002041-6
- ↑ Carlos Juan Finlay (presented: August 14, 1881; published: 1882) "Anders de la Real Academia " el mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de trasmision de la fiebre amarilla de Ciencias Médicas, Físicas y Naturales de la Habana , 18 : 147–169.
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