Name Gaspar Casal | Role Physician | |
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El departamento de salud publica inicia el ciclo de seminario gaspar casal
Gaspar Casal (1681–1759) was a Catalan physician remembered for describing the Casal collar in pellagra.
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- El departamento de salud publica inicia el ciclo de seminario gaspar casal
- Presentacin del libro eSalud aplicaciones y tendencias
- Biography
- References
Presentación del libro "eSalud: aplicaciones y tendencias"
Biography
Gaspar Casal, was born in Girona Catalonia, practised in Oviedo from 1720 to 1751, at which time he moved to Madrid as King Ferdinand's physician. He described pellagra in a book published in 1762, calling it mal de la rose due to the red rash seen on the hands and feet of sufferers.
Biography
References
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