Santorio Santorio
Santorio Santorio (Latinized Sanctorius; born March 29, 1561 Capo d'Istria , Istria ; † February 22, 1636 in Venice ) was an Italian physician who made physiological examinations and was the first to carry out systematic metabolic research. He was also one of the first doctors to have proven to do self-experiments.
Life
Santorio studied medicine at the University of Padua and received his doctorate there in 1583. After staying in Croatia and Dalmatia, he practiced as a doctor in Venice from 1599. From 1611 to 1624 he was professor of theoretical medicine in Padua and later in Venice.
Act
Santorio was also the first to use precision instruments in medicine to conduct quantitative experiments. In 1602 he introduced the pendulum to measure the pulse rate in medicine and invented some "pulsologia" for pulse measurement. For this he was probably inspired by his discussions with Galileo Galilei , who already had the idea to use the pendulum oscillations to determine differences in pulse speed. Santorio's best-known medical achievement was a metabolic balance (see fig.) To study the metabolism, which he used in himself and also in Galileo. He also published a description of a new type of thermometer that may also have been inspired by Galileo.
He is considered a co-founder of iatrophysics (iatromechanics).
Fonts (selection)
- Methodi vitandorum errorum omnium, qui in arte medica contingunt libri XV, quorum principia sunt ab auctoritate medicorum, & philosophorum principum desumpta, eaque omnia experimentis, & rationibus analyticis comprobata in the Google book search. Apud Petrum Aubertum, Venice 1630 (1st edition: 1603).
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Ars de statica medicina in the google book search. David Lopes de Haro, Leiden 1642 (1st edition: 1612).
- De statica medicina et de responsione ad staticomasticem ars aphorismorum sectionibus octo comprehensa on Gallica . Antoine Cellier, Lyon 1690.
- Commentaria in artem medicinalem Galeni . 1614.
- Nova pulsuum praxis morborum omnium diagnosim prognosim et medendi aegrotis rationem statuens, sine eorum relatione, 1624.
- Commentaria in primam Fen primi libri canonis Auicennae on Gallica . Apud Iacobum Sarcinam, Venice 1625. ("Canon Auicennae" means Avicenna's Qānūn at-Tibb ( canon of medicine ))
- Commentaria in primam sectionem aphorismorum Hippocratis . 1629.
- Opera omnia. 1660. (Collected Works)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Schäfer : Santorio Santorio. 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. 1284 f.
- ↑ Werner Friedrich Kümmel: The pulse and the problem of time measurement in the history of medicine. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 9, 1974, pp. 1-22, here: pp. 1 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Santorio Santorio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sanctorius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1561 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cap d'Istria |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1636 |
| Place of death | Venice |