Medicina nei secoli
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Medicina nei secoli · Jan 2010
Historical Article[Two hospitals in Rome between the church and the state: Policlinico Umberto I and Addolorata].
During the years between the 1900 and the 1907 two significant hospitals were built in Rome, the "Policlinico Umberto I" and the "Addolorata" hospice, founded by Antonio Cerasi. The first one aims to reflect the lay idea of medical assistance, widely open to relevant science developments, and in the meantime strengthened by the dedication to scientific research and education; the other one was the very embodiment of the Christian spirit of charity and care for poorest and chronic patients.
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Andreas Vesalius is the most commanding figure in European medicine, after Galen and before Harvey. His dissections and lectures were in considerable demand. ⋯ The present study aim to reconstruct the journey he made to Pisa, where he was invited by Duke Cosimo I De' Medici. The work of Andrea Corsini and O'Malley, the study of Vesalius' Epistola... rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae dedocti... , and other documents make possible a more detailed reconstruction of the period Vesalius spent in the Nuovo Studio Pisano, carrying out public human dissections, discussing and refuting most of the Galenic doctrine.