Rustom Jal Vakil
Rustom Jal Vakil (17 July 1911 – 20 November 1974) was a cardiologist from India who was awarded a Padma Bhushan for his contributions to medicine. He was the first Indian to win a Lasker Award.
Born in Bombay in 1911, Vakil completed his medical education in London.[1] He pioneered the 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’’) Himachal Pradesh. It was later explored as a treatment for schizophrenia.[2]
- 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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Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)
- Homi J. Bhabha
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
- Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati
- Jnan Chandra Ghosh
- Maithili Sharan Gupt
- Amarnath Jha
- Ajudhiya Nath Khosla
- Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
- Hussain Ahmed Madani
- Josh Malihabadi
- Vaikunthbhai Mehta
- Vallathol Narayana Menon
- A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
- Palden Thondup Namgyal
- V. Narahari Rao
- Jamini Roy
- Sukumar Sen
- M. S. Subbulakshmi
- Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
# Posthumous conferral
- 1954–1959
- 1960–1969
- 1970–1979
- 1980–1989
- 1990–1999
- 2000–2009
- 2010–2019
- 2020–2029
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