Rustom Jal Vakil
Rustom Jal Vakil (1911–1974) 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.[1] 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’’).[2] Reserpine was later explored as a treatment for schizophrenia.[2]
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.
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