title: [Why was Rocco Jemma the greatest Italian paediatrician?].
abstract: Rocco Jemma was the greatest Italian paediatrician, because he left the greatest signs in history. The most important amongst his achievements is certainly the foundation of the Rocco Jemma School which spread all over Italy and provided the greatest number of paediatric teachers who reached excellence levels. He was, among all the presidents of the Italian Society of Paediatrics, the one who was in office for the longest time. The therapy of leishmaniosis, based on antimonial derivatives formulated by Jemma, is still used and respected today.
authors.affiliation: Corso di Comunicazione, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy. italo.farnetani@unimib.it
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Farnetani
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Farnetani
mesh_terms: D000965:Antimony / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000266:history / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000967:Antimony Sodium Gluconate / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000266:history / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D007558:Italy; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000266:history*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D000965:Antimony; D000967:Antimony Sodium Gluconate