Italy
338 entries published in Italy. 11 publication places.
1850 CE–1866 CE
#6385
Storia della medicina. 3 vols. in 4.
Vol. 2 was in 2 parts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1857 CE
#8854
Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle scienze e delle letters a tutto il secolo XVIII. Con un paragone fra la sua antichità e quella delle scuole di Salerno e di Padova.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1862 CE
#2388
Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.
Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.
1869 CE
#5610
Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.
Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as ea…
1869 CE
#3754
Studii clinici ed esperimentali sulla natura, causa e terapia della pellagra.
Lombroso upheld the maize theory of the origin of pellagra. He believed that the symptoms were caused by a toxin which developed in deteriorated maize. Reprinted from Riv. clin. Bologna, 1869, 8, 289-314, 321-44.
1870 CE
#3121
Cachessia puerperale raccolta nella clinica ginecologica dell’ospitale Maggiore di Milano.
“Valsuani’s disease” – progressive anemia in pregnant and lactating women, probably first described by H. N. Bennett (No. 3117).
1872 CE
#12503
Fisologia dell' amore.
Through many editions and translations of his three main works of sexuality (cited in this database) Mantagazza may have been the most widely read author on sexuality in the 19th century. He was also a widely publishe…
1873 CE–1892 CE
#7473
La scienza e la pratica della anatomia patologica.
Divided into six parts, as follows: Book I: Delle alterazioni di prima formazione (on teratology) Book II: Delle ipertrofie Book III: Delle atrofie Book IV: Dell’infiammazione e della mortificazione Book V: Dei …
1876 CE
#174
L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.
Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the…
1877 CE
#12504
Igiene dell' amore
Digital facsimile of the Milan, 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1880 CE
#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…
1881 CE–1894 CE
#534.67
Storia della teratologia. 8 vols. (Tomo 1-3, 5-7 called pt. 1; t. 4 and 8 called pt. 2, Note ed osservazioni.)
The most extensive history and bibliography of teratology ever published, even though the section on malformations of single organs and parts was never completed. Contains excerpts and detailed abstracts of innumerabl…
1882 CE
#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 …
1884 CE
#10113
La paura.
Mosso conducted experiments with special equipment, which he devised to suit the requirements of the studies. He pursued two main lines of research: the analysis of motor functions and the relationship between physiol…
1885 CE
#12502
Gli amori degli uomini. Saggio di una etnologie dell'amore. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English "from the latest Italian edition, as approved by the author, by Samuel Putnam, edited with an introduction by Victor Rob…
1886 CE
#1416
Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso.
Golgi’s histological studies made a clear conception of the nervous system possible for the first time. He demonstrated the existence of multipolar nerve-cells (Golgi cells) by means of his silver nitrate stain,…
1889 CE
#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 CE
#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.
1891 CE
#639
La fatica.
Mosso investigated muscular fatigue with the ergograph of his invention. He showed fatigue to be due to a toxin produced by muscular contraction. English translation, 1906.
1892 CE
#5244
Sulle febbre malariche estivo-autumnali.
A summary of the Italian work on malaria. English translation, 1894.
1893 CE
#3602
Nuovo metodo operativo per la cura radicale dell’ ernia crurale.
Bassini’s operation for femoral hernia.
1897 CE
#13184
Bibliografia malpighiana: Catalogo descrittivo delle opere a stampa di Marcello Malpighi e degli scritti che lo riguardano
1897 CE
#950
Fisiologia dell’uomo sulle Alpi. Studii fatti sul Monte Rosa.
Mosso made important investigations on respiration at high altitudes. He considered that the respiratory symptoms produced at high altitudes were due to lack of carbon dioxide. English translation, London, 1898.
1898 CE
#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”.
1900 CE
#5252.1
Studi di uno zoologo sulla malaria.
Includes the best illustrations of the various stages of the malaria parasite published up to that time.
1901 CE–1911 CE
#652
Fisiologia dell’uomo. 4 vols.
5th edition (5 vols.), 1919-21; English translation (5 vols.), London, 1911-21. Luciani was professor of physiology successively at Siena, Florence, and Rome.
1903 CE–1929 CE
#7338
Opera Omnia. Volume I: Istologia normale—1870-1883 (Con 21 Tavole e ritratto); Volume II: Istologia normale—1883-1902 (Con 21 tavole); Volume III: Patologia generale e isto-patologia—1868-1894 (Con 9 Tavole). Volume IV: Scritti su argomenti varii.
Limited to 325 copies, including material not previously published.
1908 CE
#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…
1914 CE
#11429
Bibliographia medica typographica pedemontana saeculorum XV et XVI. A Iohanne Carboneli medico doctore collecta in qua non tantum auctorum nomina sed etiam fere omnium operum inscriptiones eadem forma mensuraque relatae inveniuntur. Cum appendicibus et explanationibus atque indicibus copiosissimis.
1924 CE–1925 CE
#2049
Malati medici e farmacisti: Storia dei rimedi traverso i secoli e delle teorie che ne spiegano l’azione sull’organismo. 2 vols.
Second edition, 1947-51.
1925 CE
#2427
The earliest printed literature on syphilis. Being ten tractates from the years 1495-98
1925 CE–1928 CE
#6725
Profili bio-bibliografici di medici naturalisti celebri Italiani dal sec. XVo al sec. XVIIIo. 2 vols.
1927 CE
#6418
Storia della medicina.
This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance Italian medicine. An E…
1933 CE
#6300
L’ostretricia e la ginecologia in Italia.
1933 CE
#2028.41
Origine e vicende della trasfusione del sangue. Considerazioni storico-critche.
1934 CE
#13231
L'analisi electroacustica del linguaggio. 2 vols.
1935 CE
#7798
Anatomia della lussazione congenita dell'anca.
Putti made many contributions to the understanding of congenital dislocation of the hip, a condition which was then endemic in Northern Italy.
1935 CE
#3699.2
De re dentaria apud veteres, sive repertorium bibliographicum.
An annotated bibliography in Italian of dental books printed before 1800, and of books on general medicine with significant contributions to dentistry.
1936 CE
#8551
Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.
Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…
1936 CE
#8978
Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.
Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…
1937 CE
#6648
I santi nella storia della medicina.
1939 CE
#6565
Bibliografia di storia della medicina italiana.
Classified list of 7451 books and papers, some annotated, on Italian medical history and biography.
1941 CE
#6467
La medicina primitiva.
1943 CE
#6937
La raccolta Vittorio Putti; antiche opere di medicina manoscritte e stampate lasciate all'Istituto Rizzoli di Bologna, compiled by Tamarro de Marinis.
Description of the 1158 manuscripts and printed volumes, particularly concerning medieval and renaissance medicine and surgery, donated by Putti to the Rizzoli Institute, followed by a listing of the collection of med…
1947 CE
#6441
Storia della medicina. 2 vols.
1951 CE
#13182
Bibliografia delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani delle traduzioni e degli scritti su di lui
1951 CE
#255.7
Studio dei gemelli.
The first truly comprehensive work on the scientific study of twins. (1381pp., 547 illustrations, 161 tables). English translation of the first half of the work, with some revisions: Twins in history and science, Spri…
1956 CE
#8346
I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).
1960 CE
#9442
Lo "Speculum hominis": Poema anonimo di etimologia medica del secolo XIII. Edited by Marco T. Malato and Concezio Alicandri-Ciufelli.
1962 CE
#6984
Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.
Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…