Giovanni Battista Borsieri

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Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Borsieri von Kanilfeld (also Borserius de Kanilfeld ; born February 18, 1725 in Civezzano in Welschtirol ; † December 21, 1785 in Milan ) was an Italian doctor and taught as a professor of practical medicine in Padua.

Giovanni Battista Borsieri.

Life

Giambattista lost an eye in his childhood. At the age of 14 he turned to medicine. From 1743 he studied medicine in Padua and Bologna . At the age of 22 he settled in Faenza as a doctor. A plague epidemic in Faenza gave him the opportunity to become known. He enjoyed the trust of many personalities, including Pope Clement XIII. and Clement XIV , the latter offered him the chair at Ferrara. In 1770 he was appointed to the medical chair in Pavia by the Empress Maria Theresa , he gave his inaugural lecture on the subject of "On the causes that prevented the upswing of practical medicine".

Act

In 1772 he was appointed professor of practical medicine in Padua, he worked for the hospitals and founded the clinic in Pavia, which later became famous, his lectures attracted listeners from all over Europe. He tried very hard for the students and influenced their moral behavior, the Empress Maria Theresa gave him great credit for this and in 1778 appointed him to the court in Milan, where he met the Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria (d'Este) and his bride, the Archduchess Maria Beatrice d'Este , looked after. In Milan he wrote the “Institutiones medicinae practicae”, 5 volumes that have been translated into many languages, he wrote a treatise “On the water of S. Cristoforo” and dealt with chemical analyzes of milk. He wrote about venereal (sexual) diseases, about pulse diagnostics from Hippocrates to Galenus up to his time. As a non-medical publication, Borsieri left the handwriting “The Story of Faenza”. A collection of the writings he left behind was published in Verona in 1820 under the title “Opera posthuma”. His two brothers Pietro Borsieri and Francesco Borsieri were also doctors.

Borsieri's achievements were already respected in his time, as a teacher he was the idol of the students, as a person humane and charitable. He received numerous honors during his lifetime, in Faenza he was appointed to the General Council. In 1772 he became rector of the University of Pavia, which he held three times. Under his rectorate a woman, Maria Pellegrina Amoretti , was admitted to obtain a doctorate. Before his death he visited his home village of Civezzano again, although the saying that the prophet is not valid in his homeland does not apply here. During his illness he dictated to his son "The First Treatises on Breast Diseases". His death was deeply mourned, leaving five young children, two of whom became clergy. The nobility predicate "von Kanilfeld" was probably a Germanization of Campo Canile, a property near Civezzano that bore this name and belonged to the Borsieri family. Letters from Giambattista Borsieri are in the Tyrolean Provincial Museum Ferdinandeum (autographs B). There is a marble monument in the University of Pavia and a street in Trento is named after him.

Works

  • Nuovi fenomeni scoperti nell'analisi chimica del latte memori , Pavia, 1772.
  • Delle acque di S. Christoforo , Faenza, 1786.
  • Institutionum medicinae practicae, quas auditoribus suis praelegebat , 5th vol., Milan 1781–1789.
  • Pectoris Complectens Disease , Naples 1790
  • The institutions of the practice of medicine , translation, London, 1800
  • Opera posthuma , (including pulse and fever theory), Verona, 1820
  • Istitutione di medicina pratica , Florence, 1837
  • Autobiography , Trento, 1885

literature

personal data
SURNAME Borsieri, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borsieri von Kanilfeld, Giovanni Battista Giambattista (full name); Borserius de Borsieri, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Civezzano , Welschtirol
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1785
Place of death Milan