Diethylcarbamazine

 

Yellapragada Subbarow (1895–1948) was an Indian biochemist and medical researcher whose discoveries transformed biochemistry, pharmacology, and modern medicine 

 

 

 

While working at Lederle Laboratories, he guided research that led to several important drugs:

• Methotrexate – chemotherapy for cancer and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

• Diethylcarbamazine – treatment for Lymphatic Filariasis

• Tetracycline (Aureomycin) – one of the first broad-spectrum antibiotics

• Work related to Folic acid metabolism

   

                       Diethylcarbamazine: First Drug For Lymphatic Filariasis

   
  

  
   
  
  

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Stewart Treves Syndrome

 

                                                                         Lymphedema 

 

 

  

 Stewart–Treves syndrome was first clearly described in 1948 by Frederick E. Stewart and Norman Treves at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York City.

They reported several cases of angiosarcoma developing in chronically lymphedematous arms of patients treated surgically for Breast cancer. 

 

 

   

 

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World Lymphedema Day

 

                                                     Worms known to cause Lymphedema

 

The species Wuchereria bancrofti was named in honor of:

• German parasitologist Otto Wucherer, who had described microfilariae in Brazil.

• Joseph Bancroft, who discovered the adult worm.

   
   

   Australian physician Joseph Bancroft discovered adult worms in lymphatic vessels of infected patients in Brisbane, confirming the organism causing the disease.  

   

   

   

   

   

  Wucheria Bancrofti = Filariasis 

   

  

   

   

   

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Multiple Personality Day

 

                                                                     March 5, 2026 

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                                          National Hospitalist Day/ Multiple Personality Day 

 

 

 

Multiple Personality Day (USA) 

 

 

 

 

Dissociative Identity Disorder

 

It was formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder

 

 The first widely recognized case was reported in 1815 

 

 Mary Reynolds in the United States. 

 

 

 

American Psychiatric Association. 

 

 

 

 In 1980, Multiple Personality Disorder was officially included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III)  

In 1994, the name was changed to Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) to emphasize identity fragmentation rather than multiple fully formed personalities 

 

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