- Francesco Puccinotti
Francesco Puccinotti (
1794 -October 8 ,1872 Chambers's Encyclopaedia , 1891, [http://books.google.com/books?id=vUJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA481&lpg=PA481&dq=Francesco+Puccinotti+1872+%22Santa+Croce%22&source=web&ots=VGkDSQ1WH7&sig=blxAh51PgtqZWvAud-fNBQzkg3Y&hl=en#PPR6,M1 Volume VIII] .] ) was an Italianpathologist .Puccinotti was born in
Urbino and started his career as the main doctor inRecanati but moved on toMacerata where he became the director of the civil hospital. He went on to teach the history ofmedicine at the universities ofPisa andFlorence . He was briefly named to theItalian Senate after the "Risorgimento".Puccinotti wrote an influential history of - his "Storia delle Medicina" ("History of Medicine") - and "Patologia induttiva preposta a nuovo organo della scienza medica", an early book on the significance of pathology to medicine. He also did some of the early research into
bioelectricity inwarm-blooded animals.Puccinotti died in
Florence and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce.References
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