Aureliano Maestre de San Juan explained

Aureliano Maestre de San Juan
Birth Date:17 October 1828
Birth Place:Granada, Spain
Death Place:Alicante, Spain
Nationality:Spanish
Field:Anatomy
Work Institution:University of Granada, Complutense University of Madrid

Aureliano Maestre de San Juan (October 17, 1828 - June 1, 1890) was a Spanish scientist, histologist, physician and anatomist. He is credited as being one of the first scientists to recognize the disorder known as Kallmann syndrome.[1] He died in 1890, having been blinded in a laboratory accident involving caustic soda two years earlier.

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  1. Maestre de San Juan. Aureliano. Teratolagia: falta total de los nervios olfactorios con anosmia en un individuo en quien existia una atrofia congenita de los testiculos y miembro viril.. El Siglo Médico. 1856. 3. 211–221.