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Eliodoro Mercado

Eliodoro Donato Mercado (1866–1933), or Eliodoro Mercado y Donato, was a Filipino physician and army surgeon. Along with Victor Heiser, he developed a method of injecting chaulmoogra oil to treat leprosy. His work, titled Leprosy in the Philippines and its Treatment, was published in 1914. He was regarded as the "greatest leprologist of the Philippines," according to Zoilo M. Galang. He was also a founding member of the Colegio Médico-Farmacéutico of the Philippines and a former supernumerary surgeon in the Spanish Army.

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• ▸William A. Hagins
• ▸Huastec people
• ▸Horace Wells

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