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TORTI, Francesco (1658 – 1741)

TORTI, Francesco (1658 – 1741)

1658 – 1741

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1712 CE

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Therapeutice specialis ad febres quasdam pemiciosas, inopinato, ac repente lethales, una vera china china, peculiare methodo ministrata, sanabiles

TORTI, Francesco (1658 – 1741)
TORTI, Francesco (1658 – 1741)

Torti’s work finally established the specific nature of cinchona bark. His demonstration of its effectiveness in periodic over continuous fevers finally overthrew the doctrine of the common origin of all fevers.…