Hemendra Nath Chatterjee was an Indian scientist from West Bengal known for the earliest publication of a formula for Orally Rehydrated Saline (ORS) for diarrhea management in 1952.
[2] Some argue this was for cultural reasons as his treatment protocol included traditional medicine, and also because the scientific underpinnings of ORS weren't well understood.
[1] In his 1953 study, Chatterjee gave a dilute salt and glucose solutions both rectally and orally to a small percentage of pre-selected mildly ill cholera patients.
Patients also received a leaf decoction of Coleus aromaticus, a folk anti-diarrheal, which is now known to make diarrhea worse.
[1] The formulation of the fluid replacement solution was hypotonic sodium chloride, 25 g of glucose and 1000 ml of water.