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Quisumbing undertook restoration of the Herbarium, which was completely destroyed during the war. Quisumbing was author of taxonomic and morphological papers, many of which deal with orchids, including ‘Medicinal plants in the Philippines’ (Manila 1951). Saccolabium quisumbingii has been named in his honour.
[2] [3] [4] It was found in other parts of South Asia early; according to Eduardo Quisumbing, it was brought to the Philippines in prehistoric times. [2] It spread across the Indian Ocean to Réunion and Mauritius and crossed the Pacific to Hawaii. [2] [3] It expanded to the Caribbean in 1793, when William Bligh carried the plant from Timor to ...
Several Filipino scientists have pioneered in the field of biology. For example, Eduardo Quisumbing, a biologist who graduated MS in Botany at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1921, and Ph.D. in Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Morphology at the University of Chicago in 1923.
Eduardo Quisumbing: Biological Sciences Plant Taxonomy, Systematics, and Morphology 1982 Geminiano T. de Ocampo: Health Science Ophthalmology Casimiro del Rosario: Mathematical and Physical Science Physics, Astronomy, and Meteorology Gregorio Velasquez: Agricultural Sciences Phycology 1983 Francisco Fronda: Agricultural Science Animal Husbandry
The history of medicine in the Philippines discusses the folk medicinal practices and the medical applications used in Philippine society from the prehistoric times before the Spaniards were able to set a firm foothold on the islands of the Philippines for over 300 years, to the transition from Spanish rule to fifty-year American colonial embrace of the Philippines, and up to the establishment ...
The paintings. In 1953, Dr. Agerico Sison, then director of Philippine General Hospital, and Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing, director of the National Museum, Dr. Florentino Herrera Jr., and Dr. Constantino Manahan commissioned Botong Francisco to create a painting depicting the history of Philippine medicine.
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They include 16 out of 41 National Scientists of the Philippines: Eduardo Quisumbing, 1980 (Plant Taxonomy, Systematics, and Morphology), Francisco M. Fronda, 1983 (Animal Husbandry), Francisco O. Santos, 1983 (Human Nutrition and Agricultural Chemistry), Julian Banzon, 1986 (Chemistry), Dioscoro L. Umali, 1986 (Agriculture and Rural ...