Rustom Jal Vakil

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Rustom Jal Vakil (17 July 1911 – 20 November 1974) was a cardiologist from India who was awarded a Padma Bhushan for his contributions to medicine. He was the first Indian to win a Lasker Award.

Born in Bombay in 1911, Vakil completed his medical education in London.^[1] He pioneered the use of reserpine to control hypertension. Reserpine is derived from Indian Snakeroot, Rauwolfia serpentina, known in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh as Pagal-ki-dawa (‘‘medicine for the insane’’). It was later explored as a treatment for schizophrenia.^[2]

Books authoredEdit

Clinical Diagnosis
Textbook of Medicine
The romance of healing and other essays
Heart in Health and Disease

Awards receivedEdit

1958 Padma Bhushan
1959 International Albert Lasker Award
1965 Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award
1969 B.C.Roy Award
1971 The V World Congress of Cardiology Souvenir Award by the Cardiological Society of India
1973 The First Dhanwantari Award

ReferencesEdit

↑ "History of Medicine" (PDF). Medind.nic.in. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
↑ "Mechanisms of neurotransmitter release by amphetamines : A Review" (PDF). Sulzerlab.org. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

[1] "History of Medicine" (PDF). Medind.nic.in. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

[2] "Mechanisms of neurotransmitter release by amphetamines : A Review" (PDF). Sulzerlab.org. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

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