Dante de Blasi

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Dante de Blasi (also Dante De Blasi ; born October 25, 1873 in Uggiano la Chiesa , † July 10, 1956 in Rome ) was an Italian doctor and hygienist at the University of Rome .

Life

De Blasi acquired in 1893 a high school and graduated in 1899 his studies in medicine at the University of Rome with honors. His dissertation on an embryological topic was awarded the Girolami Prize. During his military service, which de Blasi completed as a military doctor , he carried out examinations for mechanical prophylaxis against malaria in the garrisons along the Tiber .

In 1902 de Blasi first became an assistant doctor in the children's clinic in Rome, before he got a position in the hygiene institute in Rome in 1903. In 1905 he became a lecturer. In 1920 de Blasi received a call to the University of Cagliari , and in 1921 a call as head of the hygiene department at the Medical Faculty of the University of Naples . In 1924 he received a full professorship there. In 1935 de Blasi was the successor of Giuseppe Sanarelli (1865-1940) (one of the namesake of the Sanarelli-Schwartzmann reaction ) on the chair of hygiene at the University of Rome . In 1944 he retired .

Act

De Blasi made significant contributions to numerous areas of medical hygiene and microbiology. He published important works in particular on the phenomenon of agglutination in typhoid (as a laboratory test). He was able to prove that various subspecies of the Shigella are possible pathogens for bacterial dysentery. De Blasi dealt with filterable viruses and was the first to prove that certain tumors can be caused in other animals by inoculation with ultrafiltrates (see oncovirus ). Independently of P. Remlinger, de Blasi was able to show that the rabies virus can be filtered from the Negri bodies of infected animals. Other early studies dealt with the infectious agalactia of sheep and goats , the transfer of antibodies into breast milk, including their absorption, and autovaccination .

He was also able to make important contributions to the understanding of the opsonins . In the debate about the serological detection of malaria, de Blasi took a position that this was not possible, at least by means of a complement fixation reaction. In particular, false-positive evidence for syphilis in the Aquarian reaction caused problems. De Blasi was able to clear up other sources of error in the procedure. Further work by de Blasis during this period dealt with hemolysis in malaria and babesiosis in dogs . De Blasi was able to explain the cause of a typhoid epidemic in Albano Laziale in 1912; for this work he received an honorary diploma at the 1923 congress in Strasbourg on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Louis Pasteur .

De Blasi was one of the editors of the following scientific journals : Annali di igiene , Igiene moderna , Giornale di batteriologia e immunologia , Giornale di parassitologia and Revue internationale de la vaccine .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Köhler : Sanarelli, Giuseppe. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1284.
  2. ↑ I soci dal 1944 AL - Accademia Pontaniana. In: accademiapontaniana.it. Retrieved April 5, 2018 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Real Accademia d'Italia: Inventario dell'Archivio (archivi.beniculturali.it); accessed on April 5, 2018
  4. ^ Dante de Blasi 's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 13, 2012.
  5. ^ Winner of the Cothenius Medal from 1864 to 1953 at the Leopoldina (leopoldina.org); Retrieved October 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Elenco storico nazionale dei soci ( Memento of June 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Deceased Academicians of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (casinapioiv.va); Retrieved October 13, 2012
personal data
SURNAME De Blasi, Dante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Uggiano la Chiesa
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1956
Place of death Rome