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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