Teaching nephrology at Naples Studium, 1650-1750.
The teaching of nephrology and of practical medicine in general (that is, clinical medicine) in Naples University (Studium) in the 17th and 18th centuries can be reconstructed through a plurality of textual testimonies: prominent among them the manuscript of students' notes. Notes taken by students attending the lessons of the prominent physician and scientist Nicola Cirillo (1671-1735) are here compared with the published textbook by his teacher Luca Tozzi (1638-1727), as well as with data gathered from a collection of consultations by Cirillo, in order to reconstruct the actual contents of the teaching and clinical practice of nephrology in Naples in that period.
Conforti
Maria
M
History of Medicine Division, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy. maria.conforti@uniroma1.it
D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000266:history; D009398:Nephrology / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history*; D013663:Teaching