Pavia
14 entries published in this place. (Pavia, IT)
1478
#361
Anatomia.
First dated printed edition of the first medieval book devoted solely to anatomy, written by Mondino for his students in 1316. An earlier, but undated edition, of which only 3 copies are recorded, appeared in Padua ab…
1492
#2191
Rosa anglica practica medicinae. Ed: Nicolaus Scyllacius.
The first printed medical book of an Englishman. John of Gaddesden was a prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and physician to Edward II. The work, to quote Garrison, “consists mainly of Arabist quackeries and countrysi…
1496
#9144
Expositio super libros tegni Galeni. Ed: Guilemus Caldentei Hispanus.
ISTC No. ih00542000.
1505
#11107
De gotta la preservation e cura.
The earliest separately printed treatise on gout by the physician/humanist grandfather of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola. Giovanni Savonarola emphasized the dietary causes of gout, and the dangers of eating r…
1574
#1479
Anatomici libri II … In altero de musculis, palpebrarum atque oculorum motibus deservientibus, accurate disseritur.
First exact description of the lacrimal duct. Carcano gave the true position of the lacrimal gland and showed the route taken by the tears.
1789
#1552
Observationes anatomicae de aure interna comparata.
1789
#1453
Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu.
Scarpa made important researches concerning the auditory and olfactory apparatus of fishes, birds, reptiles, and man. See L. Sellers and B. Anson, [Scarpa’s] Anatomical observations on the round window, Arch. Otolaryn…
1794
#1253
Tabulae nevrologicae, ad illustrandum historiam anatomicam cardiacorum nervorum, noni nervorum cerebri, glossopharyngaei et pharyngaei ex octavo cerebri.
This elegantly illustrated anatomical atlas is regarded as Scarpa’s greatest work. The result of 20 years of research, it includes the first proper delineation of the glossopharyngeal, vagus, hypoglossal, and cardiac …
1801
#5835
Saggio di osservazioni e d’esperienze sulle principali malattie degli occhi.
This beautifully illustrated work was the first textbook on the subject to be published in the Italian language. Its author has been called “the father of Italian ophthalmology”. English translation, London, 1806.
1803
#4308
Memoria chirurgica sui piedi torti congenita dei fanciulli.
First accurate description of the pathological anatomy of congenital club-foot. English translation, Edinburgh, 1818.
1804
#2975
Sull’aneurisma: riflessioni ed osservazioni anatomico-chirurgiche.
Scarpa distinguished true from false aneurysms. He introduced the concept of arteriosclerosis. English translations, Edinburgh, 1808 and 1819. Digital facsimile from Heidelberg University Library at this link.
1817
#2940
Memoria sulla legatura delle principali arterie degli arti.
1821
#3584
Sull’ernia del perineo.
Scarpa’s work on perineal hernia included a classic description of sliding hernia, or hernia of the large bowel. His contribution to the subject of hernia ranks with that of Cooper, and he did much toward modernizing …
1925
#11108
