Giuseppe Lanzoni (physician)
Giuseppe Lanzoni (Latin: Joseph Lanzonus; 26 October 1663 – 1 February 1730), was an Italian physician, antiquarian, professor of medicine and botany, and member of the "Leopoldina" academy of scholars.[1]
Biography
Giuseppe Lanzoni was born Ferrara. From a very young age, he showed a great inclination for study and an aptitude for the sciences. In 1685, he received the double title of Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, and the following year, despite his youth, he obtained a chair which he kept until his death on February 1, 1730.
He distinguished himself less as a doctor than as a scholar with a passion for the practice. He devoted all his time to it, which he divided between reading works on the art of healing and courses on antiquities. He did not have much confidence in the power of medicine, i.e. he did not believe in all these so-called miracles. He relied little on remedies, mainly on those resulting from a combination of various drugs, and bloodletting, aided by diet, was about the only one to which he gave an unquestionable effectiveness.
Almost all the academies of Italy admitted him among their members, and he belonged to the Leopoldina under the name of Epicharmus. He had seventeen sons, sixteen of whom died in infancy.
Works
- Brief an Johann Georg Volkamer (1690)
- Tractatus de balsamatione cadaverum (1696)
- Hieronymi Baruffaldi Ph. D. Ferrariensis dissertatio De praeficis ad illustrationem urnae sepulcralis Fl. Quartillae Praeficae (1713; with Girolamo Baruffaldi)
- De coronis et unguentis in antiquorum conviviis exercitatio philologica (1715; with Girolamo Baruffaldi)
Notes
- ↑ "Giuseppe Lanzoni," Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
References
- Andreas Elias Büchner, Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri. Halae Magdebvrgicae (1755), p. 477.
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur, Geschichte der kaiserlichen Leopoldino-Carolinischen deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher während des zweiten Jahrhunderts ihres Bestehens. Friedrich Frommann (1860), p. 198.
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- 1663 births
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- 17th-century Italian botanists
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