Giovanni da Vigo
Giovanni da Vigo (* around 1450 in Rapallo , † 1525 in Rome ) was an Italian surgeon .
Life
Vigo was the son of a surgeon and stone cutter . He was apprenticed to a surgeon in Saluzzo and studied medicine in Rome . After initially working in northern Italy, he became the personal physician of Pope Julius II in 1503. Vigo's “Practica in arte chirurgica” (1514) was often reprinted and translated. Vigo believed gunpowder poisoning gunshot wounds required them to be cauterized or burned out with boiling oil to effect healing. Vigo was considered an authority on the treatment of gunshot wounds until Ambroise Paré developed new methods around 1542.
Works
literature
- Wolfgang U. Eckart : Historical aspects of infectious surgery and anti-infectious treatment. In: Georg-Michael Fleischer (Hrsg.): Current surgery of infections. Johann Amborius Barth, Heidelberg / Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-335-00614-3 , pp. 3-4.
- Wolfgang U. Eckart: History of medicine . Springer-Verlag , 2005, ISBN 3-540-21287-6 .
- Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Vigo, Giovanni da. 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. 1443.
Web links
- Cordula Steidle: Surgery and Anatomy in the 16th Century. ( Memento from August 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vigo, Giovanni there |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1525 |
| Place of death | Rome |