O centenário de nascimento de Gaspar Vianna

“Estrutura da Celula Nervoza”, by Bruno Lobo and Gaspar Vianna (1908): a pioneering work on Brazilian Neuroscience

“…In Europe, many works on histology and organization of the nervous system were published, and the monumental work by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, published between 1899 to 1904, is a milestone 1 . In parallel, a 154-page morphological study on the nervous tissue was published in Rio de Janeiro (1908) by the two young physicians born in Pará, Bruno Lobo (1884-1945) ( Figure 1A ), director of the Anatomopathological Laboratory of Hospício Nacional de Alienados (and future director of the Brazilian National Museum between 1915 and 1923), and Gaspar Vianna (1885-1914) ( Figure 1B ), his laboratory assistant (who would be known afterwards as one of the greatest figures in Medicine and Science in Brazil due to his contributions to the treatment of leishmaniasis and Chagas’ disease) 2 , 3 . Both were directly influenced by the works of renowned physicians Juliano Moreira (1873-1933) and Eduardo Chapot Prevost (1864-1907).…”