Heriberto Pieter Bennett, Dominican physician (Ciudad Trujillo 16 March 1884 – Santo Domingo 19 May 1972)

From Congolese descent (his father was born in Curaçao and his mother in Saint Thomas Island)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Developed a procedure for staining blood smears in order to diagnosing malaria

Notas sobre la coloración de las placas de sangre en paludismo (1912)

An important work about inheritance of alkaptonuria 

Une familie d’ alcaptonuriques. Presse Medicale 33:1310, 1925

Authored a work worldwide requested

Apuntes de Cancerolojia para el prontuario del medico practico (1961-4)

Developed a method for revealing color photo plates

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Baruk-Bachet’s Tsedek test applicable for personal and social variations in Dominican Republic. Rev. Med. Dom. 8(3-4):157-60, 1953

Circunstantial hazards and bonds in usual application of psychosomatic medicine. Rev. Med. Dom. 8(3-4):150-6, 1953

Consideraciones sobre el cancer de pene en la Republica Dominicana. Rev. Med. Dom. 3(3):9-12, 1948

Etude d’un cas de cancer primitive du poumon, suivi d’autres cas et de quelques considerations sur les neoplases pulmonaires en generale (1923)

Los neurastenicos irresponsables: estudio de clinica i jurisprudência medicas 

HONOURS

Member, Royal Society of Medicine (London)

Gold Medal, Accademia Tiberina (1968)