José António Serrano (6 October 1851 – 7 December 1904) was a Portuguese physician and anatomist. Serrano is particularly noted for his osteological treatise ''Tratado de Osteologia Humana'' (published in two volumes, in 1895 and 1897; awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Sciences King Louis Award), and for his advances in surgery in Portugal: while a distinguished surgeon in Saint Joseph's Hospital in

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, he was an early follower of Lister's aseptic technique, and the first in the country to perform a laparotomic histerectomy. In the summer of 1890, Serrano and Bettencourt Rodrigues pioneered the treatment of

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by subcutaneously grafting the thyroid gland of a sheep to treat

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and subsequently proposing hypodermic injections of thyroid extract to achieve the same result; their findings were overshadowed by George R. Murray's later paper published in the more accessible ''

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