Florence
51 entries published in this place. (Florence, IT)
1478
#20
De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.
De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus’s s…
1481
#13888
De regimine sanitatis ad Soldanum Babyloniae.
Maimonides wrote De regimine sanitatis in the 1190s in Arabic as a private manual of health for the Sultan Al-Afdal, son of Saladin. It was translated from Arabic into Hebrew in 1244 by Moses ibn Tibbon, and the Hebre…
1492
#1960
Thesaurus pauperum. [Italian:] Tesoro de poveri. Tr: Zucchero Bencivenni.
One of the most popular medical books of the Middle Ages; first written about 1260. After its first printing about 1492 it was reprinted many times in the next 100 years. "Petrus Hispanus was the only practicing physi…
1498
#11631
Nuovo ricettario composto dal Collegio dei Dottori di Firenze. Ed: Hieronymus dal Pozzo Toscanelli.
The pharmacopeia of Florence was probably the second pharmacopeia published in print. It included a list of approved drugs and described various methods of preparing them for use, together with proper weights and meas…
1507
#2270
De abditis nonnulus ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis. Edited by Girolamo Benivieni.
Antonio Benivieni's The hidden causes of diseases was the first book on pathological anatomy, presenting the first reports of autopsies made specifically to determine the cause of death. The work records twenty post-m…
1536
#11748
De palpitationes, tremore, rigore, convulsione. Intreprete Nicolao Lauachio, medico Florentino.
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First separately published printed edition of Galen's writings on neuropathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1583
#8940
De plantis libri XVI.
Cesalpino developed the first scientific classification system for flowering plants. "Unlike the "herbals" of that period, it contains no illustrations. The first section, including thirty pages of the work, is the pa…
1662
#1229
Exercitatio anatomica de structura et usu renum.
Classic description of the gross anatomy of the kidney. Bellini discovered the renal excretory ducts (“Bellini’s ducts”) and advanced a physical theory of the secretion of the urine. A translation of an extract from t…
1664
#2102
Osservazioni intorno alle vipere.
The first methodical work on snake-poison. Redi demonstrated for the first time that, for the poison to produce its effect, it must be injected under the skin.
1667
#577
Elementorum myologiae specimen.
In this work Stensen, in collaboration with the mathematician Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703), a pupil of Galileo, developed a geometrical description of muscular contraction, and attempted to show theoretically that mu…
1668
#97
Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’insetti.
In the first scientific study of spontanteous generation Redi’s experiments dealt the first real blow to the ancient doctrine. In these experiments Redi made use of what we now term “controls”. English translation, 1909.
1671
#294.1
Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali…
Includes the first scientific study of an electric fish. While the torpedo’s peculiar properties had provoked scientific speculation since at least the time of Aristotle, Redi was the first to perform an actual dissec…
1680
#3761
Esperienze del Dottor Giuseppe Zambeccari intorno a diverse viscere tagliate a diversi animali viventi.
Proof that the spleen is not essential to life. For a translation and notes on the book, see Bull. Hist. Med., 1941, 9, 144-76, 311-31 (S. Jarcho).
1684
#2448.1
Osservazioni … intomo agli animali viventi che si trovano negli animali viventi.
Redi was among the first of the parasitologists. He demonstrated the reproductive organs of Ascaris lumbricoides and also ascaris eggs. The results of his experiments appear in the above work, which also records his s…
1687
#2529.1
Osservazioni intorno a’ pellicelli del corpo umano.
First clinical and experimental proof of infection by a microparasite. Bonomo observed Sarcoptes scabiei, the scabies mite. This gave researchers grounds to think in terms of objective, exogenous pathogenic agents as …
1707
#4279.1
Litotomia…
A renowned specialist and pupil of Bellini, Alghisi was probably the first to use an indwelling urethral catheter to drain urine away from the wound after lithotomy. The inclined position of the patient with the head …
1729
#10170
Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita.
Micheli provided descriptions of 1900 plants, including first published descriptions of about 1400. Among those were 900 fungi and lichens, accompanied by 73 plates. He included information on "the planting, origin an…
1738
#5991.9
Degli occhiali da naso inventati da Salvino Armati…
The first book on the history of spectacles. Manni gave credit for the invention to the Florentine Armati (fl. 1300).
1742
#11741
Index testarum conchyliorum quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri ... et methodice distributae exhibentur tabulae CX.
The beautiful catalogue of the shell collection formed by Gualtieri, physician to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany in his "museum." Many of the shells are depicted standing on their apices, and are depicted from two …
1754
#12175
Graecorum chirurgici libri Sorani unus de fracturarum signis. Oribasii duo de fractis et de luxatis e collectione Nicetae ab antiquissimo et optimo codice Florentino descripti conversi atque edited ab Antonio Cocchio.
A scholarly edition of the Nicetas Codex containing various texts on fractures and luxations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1780
#11874
Della morte apparente degli annegati.
The first Italian work on resusciation. Testa’s work is also one of the earliest on the subject published after the foundation in 1767 of Amsterdam’s pioneering Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen, the first org…
1787
#2467
Dell’arte de fare il vino.
Fabbroni was the first to promote modern ideas on the nature of fermentation. He showed that air was not considered necessary for fermentation to take place; he was first to regard the ferment as an albumenoid substan…
1789
#4920.2
Remarks and rules set by him in: Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova & di Bonifazio.
Chiarugi’s regulations for the Bonifazio mental asylum mark the first appearance in print of his landmark reforms in the humane treatment of the mentally ill. Chiarugi was the first to practise the humanitarian treatm…
1793 –1794
#4921
Della pazzia in genere, e in specie, trattato medico-analitico, con una centuri di osservatzioni. 3 vols.
Chiarugi was the first in Europe to abandon chains and fetters in a mental hospital. He required a case history for each patient, hygienic rooms with segregation of the sexes, no restraint beyond strait jacket and cot…
1816
#7488
Anatomia per uso degli studiosi di scultura e pittura.
Mascagni's anatomy for artists and sculptors, edited for posthumous publication by Mascagni's literary execultor Francesco Antonmarchi. 15 hand-colored engraved plates after drawings by Antonio Serantoni (1780j-1837),…
1862
#2388
Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.
Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.
1880
#12884
Fisologia del dolore.
Mantegazza performed pioneering research into the physiology of pain at his experimental laboratory. His work marks the beginning of algometry, the scientific measurement of responses to pain stimuli. Mantegazza inven…
1882
#3126
Dell’anemia splenica.
“Banti’s disease”. Banti described the pathological changes in the spleen in splenic anemia. A later paper in Sperimentale, 1894, 48, sez. biol., 407-32, gives an account of hepatic cirrhosis as the sequel of the earl…
1889
#1013
Fisiologia del digiuni.
Luciani distinguished three stages of starvation in man – hunger, physiological inanition, and pathological inanition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1891
#1421
Il cervelletto. Nuovi studi di fisiologia normale e patologica.
Luciani succeeded in keeping dogs alive after total extirpation of the cerebellum, and initiated the modern study of cerebellar function. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1898
#4474
Amputazione, disarticulazione et protesi.
Vanghetti was the first to suggest the use of the musculature remaining above the amputation stump to form a motor unit for artificial limbs – “kinematization of stumps”.
1908
#7342
I ganglî cerebrospinali. Studi di istologia comparata e di istogenesi.
"Using comparative and developmental approaches he examined dorsal root ganglion cells in the embryos of 18 vertebrate species, and adults of 56 species—using a variety of histological stains, particularly those of Go…
1925
#2427
The earliest printed literature on syphilis. Being ten tractates from the years 1495-98
1951
#13182
Bibliografia delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani delle traduzioni e degli scritti su di lui
1976
#6610.12
Anatomia come arte. 2nd ed.
Includes spectacular color plates of 19th-century wax models and earlier sculptures concerning anatomy.
1986
#197.2
Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.
Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…
1986
#7475
Opere scientifiche. Traduzione integrale dai testi originali. Coordinatore Luciano Casella. Revisione e note a cura di Enrico Coturri. 2 vols.
Steno's collected works translated from Latin into Italian. Reproduces Steno's original engraved illustrations, plus others from the time (some in color).
1991
#9362
Edizione nazionale delle opere di Antonio Vallisneri.
This is an ongoing project with many volumes and many editors and several publishers. The number of volumes already published, and planned volumes was unclear in May 2017 when I wrote this entry. Further information i…
1995
#9572
Bibliotheca Lavoisieriana: The catalogue of the library of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.
2001
#7908
MEDICINA & STORIA. 1-
Recent issues may be viewed at http://www.fupress.net/index.php/mes/issue/current.
2007
#8556
La Scuola Medica Salernitana. Gli autori e i testi. Convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004. A cura di Danielle Jacquart e Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 01.
Includes on pp. 185-188, and 211-13, Monica H. Green, "Reconstructing the oeuvre of Trota of Salerno." Also, on pp. 15-60, Monica H. Green, “Rethinking the manuscript basis of Salvatore De Renzi’s Collectio Salernitan…
2007
#8557
Alphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.
Alphita, farina ordei idem, an anonymous collection of glosses, documents the linguistic renewal of the medical and botanical technical lexicon, derived from Greco-Latin as well as Arabic sources, at the School of Sal…
2008
#9370
De arte gymnastica. The art of gymnastics. Critical edition by Concetta Pennuto. English translation by Vivian Nutton.
This critical edition, based upon the 1601 edition, the last edition published in Mercuriale's lifetime, includes the Latin text and English translation, reproductions of the woodcuts attributed to Coriolan and the or…
2009
#8555
Ps. Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis: Tractatus de herbis (Ms London, British Library, Egerton 747). A cura di Iolanda Ventura. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 05.
Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis, probably active in the 14th century, was the copyist of British Library Ms Egerton 747, Tractatus de herbis. The identity of the author of the original work, probably written a century ear…
2009
#13207
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 1, Le collezioni della Specola : zoologia e cere anatomiche.
2010
#13208
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Volume 3, Le collezioni geologiche e paleontologiche.
2011
#10702
Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.
2012
#13209
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 4, Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche.
2013
#7527
La biblioteca di Avraham ben David Portaleone Secondo L'inventario della sua eredita.
An attempt to reconstruct the library of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) of Mantua, physician to the ducal house of Gonzaga, on the basis of two interesting inventories, including a Hebrew list of 1585 and an inventory…
2014
#10699