Giovanni Battista Monteggia
Giovanni Battista Monteggia (born August 8, 1762 in Laveno in the district of Monteggia (named after him), † January 17, 1815 in Pavia ) was an Italian surgeon.
His parents were Johann Anton Monteggia and his wife Marianne Vegezzi .
Life
At the age of 17 he began training as a surgeon in Milan . At the University of Pavia received his doctorate in medicine in 1789. In the same year his first book was published: "Fasciculi Pathologici". From 1790 he practiced as a surgical assistant, prosector and prison doctor . In 1795 he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery to the chair of the "Istituzioni Chirurgiche" at the University of Pavia. He contracted syphilis while harming himself during an autopsy .
Monteggia is the first to describe the Monteggia fracture , the fracture of the proximal part of the ulna with dislocation of the radial head .
Works
- 1790, Fasciculi pathologici , digitized
- 1791, Compendio sopra le malattie veneree dei GF Fritze Prof in Berlino, (translation: Frizen's handbook on syphylitic diseases)
- 1794, Annotazioni pratiche sopra i malivenereidi (Remarks on the syphylitic diseases)
literature
- F. Povacz: History of Trauma Surgery. Springer, 2000.
- JB Krombolz, Life and Studies of Joh. Bapt. Monteggia , digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monteggia, Giovanni Battista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laveno |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1815 |
| Place of death | Pavia |