Marcello MALPIGHI (1628- 1694) Italian biologist... - Lot 237 - Ader

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Marcello MALPIGHI (1628- 1694) Italian biologist... - Lot 237 - Ader
Marcello MALPIGHI (1628- 1694) Italian biologist and physician, father of microscopic anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology. L.A.S., Rome December 15, 1691, [to Professor Ippolito Francesco Albertini of Bologna?]; 1 1/2 pages large in-8; in Italian. Rare letter of medical consultation (or consilium). [Malpighi has just left Bologna to go to Rome and become the personal physician of the newly elected Pope Innocent XII; Albertini (1662-1746) had been Malpighi's pupil, and was continuing his work and teaching in Bologna on pulmonary diseases and blood circulation]. He is sorry for the persistence of the disease that is troubling the child of the most honored Countess Elena [Aldovrandi]; it must be an anomaly of the lymph that disturbs the respiratory tract and then the whole organism. The remedies indicated seem to me to be sufficient and everything must be done to moderate the humors so that the respiratory ailment does not get worse. One could also try the administration of goat's milk serum in four ounce doses. Everything should be better by the next solstice.... Malpighi charges his correspondent to greet the countess Elena and the count, as well as the very honored lady Olimpia Fontana, also on behalf of his Francesca, who, thank God, is in good health.... Correspondence of Marcello Malpighi (ed. Adelmann, 1975; t IV, n° 920). Former collection of the American cardiologist Myron Prinzmetal (1908-1987).
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