Bartolomeo Maggi
Bartolomeo Maggi (Latinized as Bartholomeus Maggius) (August 1477–7 April 1552) was an Italian military surgeon who wrote a work on surgeries in wartime De Vulnerum Sclopetorum, et Bombardarum Curatione Tractatus (1552) which was the first to deal with gunshot wounds.
Maggi was born in Bologna where he trained in surgery. He joined the papal army as a doctor at Rome under Pope Julius III. He served at the sieges of Parma and Mirandola and along with Giovanni Francesco Rota described treatments for bullet wounds and the management of amputations. Maggi noted that gunshot wounds damaged not by gunpowder toxicity as was held but through damage to tissue. His work was published posthumously. The Latin term Vulnus sclopetarium referring to gunshot wounds was first used by him.[1] One of his nephews Julius Caesar Arantius (1530–1589) also became a notable surgeon.[2]
References
- ^ Partin, C. (2018). "Vulnus sclopetarium (gunshot wound)". Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 31 (2): 231–234. doi:10.1080/08998280.2018.1444299. PMC 5914396. PMID 29706831.
- ^ Bir, Shyamal C.; Ambekar, Sudheer; Kukreja, Sunil; Nanda, Anil (2015). "Julius Caesar Arantius (Giulio Cesare Aranzi, 1530–1589) and the hippocampus of the human brain: History behind the discovery". Journal of Neurosurgery. 122 (4): 971–975. doi:10.3171/2014.11.JNS132402. PMID 25574573.
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