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O'Neill, Ynez Violé, "Innocent III and the evolution of anatomy", Medical History, 20 (1976), 429-433.
- Resum
- The first recorded instance of an autopsy in Western Europe is generally believed to be the one found in the chronicle of Fra Salimbene, the peripatetic Franciscan, who described the malady that swept through the cities of Northern Italy during the sad, bleak winter of 1286. The purpose of the dissection performed by the unnamed Cremonese physician as described by Salimbene was to determine morphologically the origin of epidemic death. Although an inkling of at least one prior procedure similarly motivated has been discovered, subsequent attempts to solve medical problems, and to seek effective treatments of various epidemic diseases through autopsies, are not difficult to find. The dissections undertaken at Perugia in April 1348 to investigate deaths resulting from the outbreak of bubonic plague in that city afford illustrative examples of this fact. The object of those procedures and of the one recorded in Salimbene's chronicle was purely medical, or more precisely, pathologico-anatomical, but even before the Perugian dissections, and earlier than the autopsy reported by Salimbene, postmortem examinations of a judicial-medical nature had begun to be instituted. The decretals of Innocent III contain several cases in which such examinations provided the evidential basis for a papal verdict.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
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