Lorenzo Bellini

Drawing Bellini

Lorenzo Bellini (born September 3, 1643 in Florence , † January 8, 1704 ibid) was an Italian anatomist and kidney physiologist .

Life

Lorenzo Bellini studied mathematics and philosophy in Pisa . At the age of 20 he was appointed professor of theoretical medicine. He was a student of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and at the age of 25 became professor of anatomy and chair holder in Pisa. Bellini worked anatomically on the kidneys and discovered the Bellini ducts named after him (urinary duct, collecting tube , old names Ductus Bellini or Tubulus Bellini ). Bellini duct carcinoma , a rare form of renal cell carcinoma , forms in these ducts (in the medullary collecting tubule) . Bellini also intuitively recognized the urine filter mechanism.

His theory of urination , published in 1680 , according to which the " serum " separated from the blood enters the kidney ducts and the blood freed from the serous "humor" enters the veins, was valid until the 19th century. Since 1691 he was a member of the Accademia della Crusca . In 1699 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

Bellini died in 1704 after bleeding from the stomach.

Works

Opuscula , 1695

Exercitatio anatomica de structura et usu renum. 1662

De urinis et pulsibus - De missione sanguinis - De febribus - De morbis capitis et pectoris. Antonius Pisarius, Bologna 1683 (digitized version )

Opuscula aliquot. Suffering 1695.

literature

Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Bellini, Lorenzo. 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. 162.

Web links

Publications by and about Lorenzo Bellini in VD 17 .
Giulio Coari - Claudio Mutini: BELLINI, Lorenzo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 7: Bartolucci – Bellotto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1965.

Individual evidence

↑ Ludwig August Kraus: Kritisch-Etymologisches medicinisches Lexikon , 3rd edition, Deuerlich- und Dieterichsche Buchhandlung , Göttingen 1844, p. 1067.
^ Francesco Trevisani: Lorenzo Bellini. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 40. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
↑ Horst Kremling : About pregnancy and kidney. A review. In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 275–282; here: p. 275.
^ Membership list of the Crusca
^ List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 17, 2019 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Bellini, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH	Florence
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1704
Place of death	Florence

[1] Ludwig August Kraus: Kritisch-Etymologisches medicinisches Lexikon , 3rd edition, Deuerlich- und Dieterichsche Buchhandlung , Göttingen 1844, p. 1067.

[2] Francesco Trevisani: Lorenzo Bellini. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 40. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

[3] Horst Kremling : About pregnancy and kidney. A review. In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 275–282; here: p. 275.

[4] Membership list of the Crusca

[5] List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 17, 2019 (French).