User:Mariam1501/José Rodríguez Carracido

José Rodríguez Carracido (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 21, 1856 – Madrid, Spain, January 3, 1928) was a Spanish senator, pharmacist and biochemist, a pioneer of Biochemistry in Spain.

Lifetime
Carracido was born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. His father was a barber. as a child he had a set of stuttering psychomotor deficiencies. The method he used to correct his stutter was the same as Demosthenes, putting stones in his mouth. In 1871 he finished high school and in 1874 he graduated in pharmacy obtaining the extraordinary prize. In October 1874 he arrived in Madrid to carry out his doctoral studies. In 1875 he defended his doctoral thesis "Theories of Fermentation". In 1876 he entered the Ateneo de Madrid.

Military Career (1874-1880)
In 1874, he took the military pharmacist oppositions and obtained first place. His first assignment was the Central Medicines Laboratory in Madrid, but he was sent on secondment to Tafalla (Navarra). There he befriended a guerrilla named Tirso Lacalle, nicknamed "the lame man from Cirauqui". Tirso Lacalle even offered him a certificate of Deputy to the Cortes for Navarre, signaling the friendship that existed between the two.

He remained in the Army until 1880, the year in which he requested voluntary discharge for having been assigned to the Rock of Vélez de la Gomera.

Professor
He gave classes in applied organic chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Madrid from 1881 to 1898, the date on which he obtained the chair of biological chemistry and critical history at the same faculty, which he would hold until 1926. Carracido was the first professor of Biochemistry of Spain.

College Career
He was dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and later rector of the Central University .(current Complutense University of Madrid).

Academician
He was a member of several academies. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences from 1887, of the Royal Academy of Medicine, since 1906 and member of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy since 1908.

In 1920, he was the president of the Academy of Pharmacy, he decided to request for it the title of Royal, which he had lost in the ups and downs of the convulsive nineteenth century. He was also dean, rector and other university academic dignities at the Central University of Madrid.

Obras (libros y artículos)

 * 1887: La Nueva Química
 * 1892: Los metalúrgicos españoles en América (conferencia pronunciada el 7 de marzo de 1892 en el Ateneo de Madrid)
 * 1893: Jovellanos. Ensayo Dramático-Histórico (Madrid. Imprenta de Fortanet, Calle Libertad, 29)
 * 1894: La Evolución en la Química
 * 1900: El Manganeso en los abonos (artículo)
 * 1903: La complejidad farmacológica en la prescripción médica (conferencia)
 * 1904: La fermentación alcohólica de la glicerina (artículo)
 * 1905: Acción de la quinina y la pilocarpina sobre las oxidasas (artículo)
 * 1906: Examen de una supuesta incompatibilidad de los calomelanos (artículo)
 * 1906: Farmacodinamia de las modificaciones de la oxidación orgánica (discurso)
 * 1908: Análisis Físico-Químico y Biológico de las Aguas de Carslbad (trabajo encargado; antes había hecho el correspondiente a Mondariz)
 * 1908: La alimentación nitrogenada (conferencia)
 * 1910: Perfeccionamiento de la alimentación albuminoidea (comunicación al congreso de Higiene y Alimentación)
 * 1911: Proceso químico de la formación del glóbulo rojo (conferencia)
 * 1915: Metabolismo de la célula autónoma y de la célula asociada (conferencia)
 * 1915: Estado actual de los problemas y métodos de la clínica biológica (conferencia)
 * 1917: Síntesis bioquímica (artículo)
 * 1920: Filogenia de la molécula albuminodea (conferencia)
 * 1921: Estudio farmacológico de la Salicaria (comunicación)
 * 1921: El Reactivo bioquímico («Mi Testamento profesional») (discurso de entrada en la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina)
 * 1922: El trabajo del riñón y las glucosurias (artículo)
 * 1923: Anoxihemias por intoxicación (conferencia)
 * 1924: La Ureogénesis (conferencia)
 * 1926: El fósforo en la vida (conferencia)
 * 1926: La formación de la materia viva (conferencia)
 * 1926: Confesiones (artículo inconcluso)

Many of his works were also published in other languages. In addition, he prefaced various scientific works.

Enlaces externos

 * Tesis doctoral de Angustias Sánchez-Moscoso sobre Carracido, 1971

Category:1856 births Category:1928 deaths