Alessandra Giliani

Alessandra Giliani

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birth_date = 1307
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death_date = March 26, 1326
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Alessandra Giliani ( ~1307 - March 26, 1326) was an Italian anatomist, serving as the first woman prosector, or preparer of dissections for anatomical study.

She was the surgical assistant to Mondino De' Luzzi (d. 1326), professor of medicine at the University of Bologna who published a seminal anatomy handbook in 1316. She developed a method of draining the blood from a corpse and replacing it with a hardening coloured dye, thus allowing the smallest blood vessels to be seen with ease.

Alessandra Giliani's short life was honoured by Otto Angenius, also one of Mondino's assistants and probably her fiance, with a plaque at the Church of San Pietro e Marcellino in Rome which describes her work.

She is mentioned by the nineteenth-century historian Michele Medici, who published a history of the Bolognese school of anatomy in 1857.

References

* [http://womenshistory.about.com/od/medicine/p/giliani.htm Women's History] at About.com . Accessed May 2007
* [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/alessandra_giliani.php Alessandra Giliani] at the Brooklyn Museum The Dinner Party database . Accessed May 2007
* [http://66.102.9.104/custom?q=cache:s5ZPQTSDwbEJ:rsparlourtricks.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html+Alessandra+Giliani&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18 Alessandra Giliani]


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