Hippolito Francesco Albertini

Hippolito Francesco Albertini (born October 26, 1662 in Crevalcore , † March 26, 1738 in Bologna ) was an Italian doctor and anatomist.

Live and act

Albertini studied philosophy and medicine in Bologna under the direction of Giovanni Andrea Volpari and Marcello Malpighi . From 1688 he worked as an assistant with them in the hospital of S. Maria della Morte. Giovanni Battista Morgagni boasted of having been Albertini's pupil and of having received important information from him, which he communicated in his main work "De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis" .

Albertini brought the "hydrops pulmonum", the pulmonary edema , in connection with heart disease. He divided enlargements of the heart into "aneurysmal" and "varicose heart enlargements" based on the analogy with the corresponding diseases of the great vessels. Together with Antonio Maria Valsalva , he developed a 40-day rest and starvation cure for the prevention and treatment of incipient heart failure (the “active aneurysms of the heart”), which was initiated by excessive bloodletting . In the 19th century, this cure for the "prevention of aneurysms" was prescribed by Jean-Nicolas Corvisart .

Works

• Animadversiones super quibusdam difficilis respirationis vitiis a laesa cordis et praecordiorum structura pendentibus. 1731 ( De Bononiesi scientiarum et artium instituto atque academia commentarius. Vol I, pp. 382–404) (Bibliotheca Digitale Universita di Bologna April 30, 2017)
• De cortice peruviano commentationes quaedam from Academico alio expositae. 1731 ( De Bononiesi scientiarum et artium instituto atque academia commentarius. Vol I, pp. 405-417) (Bibliotheca Digitale Universita di Bologna April 30, 2017)
• MH Romberg. Albertini Opuscula. Berlin 1828

literature

• Maria Leuzzi:  Albertini, Ippolito Francesco. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 1:  Aaron – Albertucci. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
• Amédée Dechambre . Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales . [série 1], tome 2, ADH - ALG. G. Masson and P. Asselin, Paris 1865, 398–399 (digitized version )
• Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume I, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1884, pp. 86–87 (digitized version )
• Hermann Vierordt. History of heart disease . In: Max Neuburger and Julius Pagel (eds.) Handbook of the history of medicine. Volume II, Fischer, Jena 1903, pp. 629-647. Here: p. 636 (digitized version)