Carlos Galli Mainini (Buenos Aires City, 1914 - idem October 16, 1961) was an Argentine physician and endocrinologist. Biography
In 1937 he graduated as a physician in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, specializing in Endocrinology. A year later he traveled to Italy, where he worked in the Medical Clinic of the Polyclinic Reggio of Rome. He then traveled to the United States with a scholarship from Harvard University. Back in Argentina, he was a researcher at the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine led by Dr. Bernardo Houssay (Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1947). In 1952 he was appointed Chief of Medical Clinic of the Hospital of Lanús, position that occupied for a short time. He published numerous papers in national and foreign scientific journals. The work that earned her worldwide recognition was her method of early biological detection of pregnancy, known as Galli Mainini's Reaction or Frog Test, documented in the 142-page monograph entitled The Diagnosis of Pregnancy with Male Batraces with Prologue of the Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine Bernardo Houssay. He died on October 16, 1961, supposedly in the city of Buenos Aires. Sources
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