Английская Википедия:Carlo Musitano

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Шаблон:Infobox scientist Carlo Musitano (5 January 1635Шаблон:Snd1714) was an Italian Catholic priest and physician often known by his Latin name Musitanus. He was one of the most important Italian physicians of the seventeenth century and his works were reissued several times and translated into French and German.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Biography

Carlo Musitano was born at Castrovillari, in Calabria, on January 5, 1635. He graduated in theology and philosophy, and was ordained a priest in 1658.Шаблон:Sfn He then settled in Naples, where he studied medicine under the guidance of renowned masters such as Tommaso Cornelio, Leonardo da Capua and Sebastiano Bartoli and acquired considerable reputation as a physician.Шаблон:Sfn Musitano also practised surgery. His treatise on the theory and practice of surgery appeared in 1698.

As a physician he paid special attention to gynaecology and venereal diseases. One of his most important works was a treatise on women's diseases: "De morbis mulierum tractatus". This particular activity of the Priest-Physician made him many enemies who, under the pretext of "indecency", tried to prevent him from practicing medicine. However they did not succeed, for Pope Clement IX, who recognized his worth, allowed him to practice, and Cardinal Antonio Pignatelli, Archbishop of Naples, who later became Pope Innocent XII, also decreed that Musitano was entitled to administer the confessional rites.Шаблон:Sfn Thus supported, Musitano went on and did much good, both as a confessor and a physician. He attended rich and poor with equal assiduity, and refused all fees and presents.Шаблон:Sfn

A defender of the new experimental approach to medicine, in 1700, he became involved in a quarrel with the Galenic doctor Pietro Antonio de Martino.Шаблон:Sfn Musitano was a prolific writer and was appointed a member of several scientific academies, including the Investiganti of Naples and the Spensierati of Rossano.Шаблон:Sfn He died in Naples in 1714, aged 79.

Works

His works on medicine and surgery were published in two volumes folio, after his death. Musitano was a follower of the iatrochemical school and an outspoken enemy of Galenism.Шаблон:Sfn He was a proponent of the experimental method and condemned the use of bloodletting, leeches and baths.Шаблон:Sfn Musitano played a major role in the discovery of the parasitic origin of scabies and was among the first to say that the itch mite was found at the end of the burrow and not in vesicular lesions (Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo had erroneously claimed that the mite was within the blisters of the eruption).Шаблон:Sfn Musitano was the author of many treatises on medicine and related subjects, among which may be mentioned the following:

• Pyrotechnia sophica rerum naturalium, Naples, 1683
• Pyretologia sive Tractatus de febribus, Naples, 1683.
• Trutina medica antiquarum ac recentiorum disquisitionum gravioribus de morbis habitarum, Venice, 1688.
• De lue venerea libri quatuor, Naples, 1689. A French translation of the work appeared in 1711.
• Chirurgia teoretico-practica seu Trutina chirurgico-physica, Geneva and Lyon. 1698.
• Apologia celeberrimorum Virorum, ibid. 1700.
• Opera medico chymico-practica seu Trutina medico-chymica, Geneva, 1700; translated into German and published in Frankfurt and Lipsia in 1702.
• Trutina Medico-Physica, Geneva, 1701.
• Ad Hadriani a Mynsicht thesaurum et armamentarium medico-chymicum Mantissa, Geneva, 1701.
• De morbis mulierum tractatus, Geneva, 1709.

His complete works were published at Geneva in 1716 and reissued in Lyon in 1733 and in Venice in 1738.Шаблон:Sfn

Bibliography

• «D. Carlo Musitano». In : Elogi accademici della Società degli Spensierati di Rossano, In Napoli : a spese di Carlo Troise stampatore Accademico della medesima Società, 1703, pp. 99–110 (on-line).
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