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Review
. 2013 Nov 1;2013(2):149-62.
doi: 10.5339/gcsp.2013.21. eCollection 2013.

Origin and development of modern medicine at the University of Padua and the role of the "Serenissima" Republic of Venice

Fabio Zampieri  1 , Alberto Zanatta  1 , Mohamed Elmaghawry, Maurizio Rippa Bonati  1 , Gaetano Thiene  1
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Origin and development of modern medicine at the University of Padua and the role of the "Serenissima" Republic of Venice

Fabio Zampieri et al. Glob Cardiol Sci Pract. .
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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
A plan of Venice from late 16th century.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
A plan of Venice from the Civitates orbis terrarum (1572–1617).
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The Lion of St Mark by Ettore Carpaccio (1516).
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Figure 4.
The two columns in St Mark's Square holding the Lion of St Mark (left) and St. Theodore (right). Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, August 6, 2007 (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).
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Figure 5.
Galileo (standing) demonstrating his telescope to Leonardo Donati wearing yellow cloak (from a 19th century painting). Note in the background the famous St Mark's basilica and its belltower (campanile).
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Figure 6.
Painting depicting Olof Rudbeck in the “Hall of Forty” at Bo Palace.
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Figure 7.
Illustration, from De humani corporis fabrica, of a “flayed” which shows external muscles.
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Figure 8.
Padua anatomical theatre, inaugurated in 1595, perfectly preserved in the Bo Palace of Padua University.
Figure 9.
Figure 9.
Image of the arterial cerebral circle from Wesling's Syntagma anatomicum (1647).
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Figure 10.
Engraving published by Harvey in his De motu cordis (1628) that reproduced the same image (with different intensions) used by Fabrici in his De venarum ostiolis (1603).
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Figure 11.
The instrument invented by Santorio (on the left) to measure pulse frequency, called the “Pulsilogio”.
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Figure 12.
Frontispiece, with portraits, of De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis, masterpiece by Morgagni, a fundamental part of anatomo-clinical method.
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Figure 13.
Statue of Girolamo Fracastoro in Verona, his hometown.
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Figure 14.
Engraving of Bernardino Ramazzini.
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Figure 15.
Achille De Giovanni.
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Figure 16.
Anthropometric table ideated by Achille De Giovanni.
Figure 17.
Figure 17.
Vincenzo Gallucci (1935–1991) prominent cardio-thoracic surgeon of the University of Padua. He performed the first heart transplantation in Italy in 1985.
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References

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