Antonio Benivieni

Antonio Benivieni

Antonio Benivieni (1443-1502) was a Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy, a postmortum dissection of a deceased patient's body used to understand the cause of death. Benivieni published a treatise entitled "De Abditis Morborum Causis" ("The Hidden Causes of Disease") which is now considered one of the first works in the science of Pathology. [ [http://pacs.unica.it/biblio/lesson6.htm History of Medicine ] ] Some of the protocols developed by Benivieni are similar to those used in autopsies to this day, and he has been referred to as the "father of pathologic anatomy." [ [http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/PTHL312abc/312a/01/Reader/reader_set.html History and Scope of Pathology ] ]

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