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Name
  
Rustom Vakil


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Awards
  
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Rustom Jal Vakil (17 July 1911 - 20 November 1974) was a renowned cardiologist from India who was awarded Padma Bhushan for his contribution . He was born in Mumbai in 1911 and had his medical education in London. He was one of the first to pioneer 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’’). Reserpine was later explored as a treatment for schizophrenia.

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Books authored

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

    • Awards received

  • 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.

    • References

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