Leonardo Botallo

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Botallo

Leonardo Botallo (* 1530 in Asti ; † around 1571 in the Center-Val de Loire region : Chenonceaux or Blois ) was an Italian surgeon .

Life

After studying medicine, Botallo received his doctorate in Pavia in 1530 or 1543 . He then continued his education with Gabriele Fallopio in Padua . Botallo worked at the royal court in Paris as a surgeon who tended gunshot wounds and performed bloodletting in chronic illnesses.

The ductus arteriosus, already discovered by Galenos , is named after Botallo as the Botalli duct and the Botalli foramen or Botalli hole, which he described in his Opera omnia medica et chirurgic published in 1660 in Leiden .

Note: The life dates vary considerably according to different sources. The year of birth is also given as 1519 (even 1515), and the year of death around 1587/88/89 (even 1600). The data (1530, around 1571) were taken from the Lexikon der Naturwissenschaftler , Directmedia, Berlin 2004.

Works

  • De curandis vulneribus sclopettorum, 1560
  • De catarrho commentarius, Paris 1564

literature

  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Botallo, Leonardo. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 201 (data there: * 1519 or 1530; 1587/88 or 1600).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Apitz: Pediatric cardiology: diseases of the heart in newborns, infants, children and adolescents . 2nd Edition. Springer, 2002, ISBN 3-642-57542-0 , p. 380.
personal data
SURNAME Botallo, Leonardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Asti
DATE OF DEATH around 1571