2021, Number 1
Ortho-tips 2021; 17 (1)
Giovanni Battista Monteggia (1762-1815): the surgeon behind the eponymous
Aguayo GLM
Full text
10.35366/99169
Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 59-63
PDF size: 196.67 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Monteggia was born only 19 years after the French surgeon; Francois Gigot de la Peyronie (1678-1747) gets the final separation between barbers and surgeons by royal ordinance of Louis XV on April 23, 1743. He dies in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, who saw the advent in the year of 1846, of anesthesia, and antisepsis in 1867. Monteggia distinguished surgeon and prolific medical writer, develops his entire career in Milan, where he died at the age of 52 years; he was Member of the Institute of the United Italian, chief of surgeons of the Ospedale Maggiore di Milano, a partner at the Italian Academy, of Genoa, Mantua, Venice, Livorno, Florence and Lucca. Monteggia lived near the hospital where for many years was devoted to patient care and training of his disciples. Two years before his death saw the light, the last edition of his monumental medical work in eight volumes entitled Instituzioni Chirurgiche published in 1813 by Giuseppe Maspero of Milan, Monteggia was among one of the pioneers in the clinical analysis of infantile paralysis or polio, described per prima in 1784 by Michael Underwood (1736-1820). And at the cuspid of his career was responsible for monitoring the implementation of vaccination against smallpox in Milan, initially developed by Edward Anthony Jenner (1749-1823) on May 14, 1798 in the United Kingdom. On April 1816, one year and three months after his death, on January 17th 1815, was erected a marble bust located in the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.REFERENCES