Francesco Antonio Canaveri (1753-1836) was an Italian Physician and Professor of Anatomy. He was a tenacious opponent of the doctrines of Cullen and Brown, who espoused the so-called Brunonian theory of medicine, which regarded disorders as caused by either defective or excessive excitation.[1]
Francesco Antonio Canaveri | |
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| Professor of medicine of the University of Turin | |
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| Born | 1753 Mondovì, Cuneo, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Died | 1836 Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Professor Physician |
| Profession | Medic |
Biography
editFrancesco Canaveri was born in Mondovì, son of a distinguished family of Piedmontese patricians. After finishing high school, he began his studies in Rhetoric and Philosophy in the University of Turin.[2] In 1788, he was elected to the post of prefect in the Turin School of Medicine
In 1796 Canaveri became professor of Materia Medica and anatomy of the University of Turin.[3] In 1799 during the Napoleonic occupation of Piedmont, Canaveri had been chosen to lead medical schools beyond the Alps. Between 1800-1814 he was appointed Inspector of the medical schools.[4]
In 1807, Canaveri sent to Padua a work on physiological observations, and for the year 1815, another paper on the usefulness of physiological notions for pathology and practical medicine.[5] He also had made some writings in medical neurology. He was the author of several popular works in this matter, including De vitalitatis oeconomia (1801),[6] Saggio sopra il dolore: dissertazione (1803),[7] Analyse et réfutation des élémens de médecine du D. J. Brown (1805) and Neuronomia, (1836) published after his death.[8]
Francesco Canaveri maintained friendship ties with notable personalities of science such as Francesco Rossi[9] and Giovanni Francesco Cigna, members of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.[10] He died in February, 1836 in Turin at the age of 82 years.[11]
References
edit- ^ Analyse et réfutation des élémens de médecine du D. J. Brown, Francesco Canaveri, 1805
- ^ DIZIONARIO GEOGRAFICO STORICO-STATISTICO-COMMERCIALE..., DI S.M. IL RE DI SARDEGNA - 1842, 1842
- ^ Minerva, ó, El revisor general, Volumes 3-4, Vega y Cía., 1806, 1806
- ^ Ricoglitore italiano e straniero: ossia rivista mensile europea, MILANO PRESSO ANT. FORT. STELLA E FIGLI, 1836
- ^ Storia della medicina in aggiunta e continuazione a quella di ..., Volume 8, Italia, 1851
- ^ De vitalitatis oeconomia, by Francesco Canaveri, 1801
- ^ Saggio sopra il dolore: dissertazione, Francesco Canaveri, 1803
- ^ Canaveri, Francesco (1836), Neuronomia Francisci Canaveri ...: Opus posthumum
- ^ Vade Mecum, Volume 1, International Congress of the History of Medicine, 1954
- ^ I Giacobini piemontesi (1794-1814), Giorgio Vaccarino, 1989, ISBN 9788871250069
- ^ Indici Delle Materie Contenute nell primo volume, Italia, 1837