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Giovanni Maria Lancisi: Facts & Related Content

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Born October 26, 1654 • Rome • Papal States
Died January 20, 1720 (aged 65) • Rome • Papal States
Notable Works “De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus” • “De subitaneis mortibus”
Subjects Of Study mosquito • hygiene • influenza • malaria • pest control • preventive medicine • rinderpest • swamp • drainage

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Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
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Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
William Crawford Gorgas.
William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon
Andrea Cesalpino
Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist
Alpini, engraving
Prospero Alpini
Italian scientist
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
John Snow
John Snow
British physician
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
William Farr
British physician
Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou
Chinese scientist and phytochemist
Segev, Dorry
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Nathan Wolfe, 2008.
Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Harriot Kezia Hunt
American physician
James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
James Lind
British physician

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