title: [Matteo Borsa (1751-1798) and his 'Hippocratic' reform of medicine].
abstract: The article examines an essay on philosophy of medicine that is, in the same time, a manifest for the reform of medicine. The author is Matteo Borsa (1751-1798) who was for a long period Segretario perpetuo of the Academia Reale di Mantova. The essay, originally entitled The physiologist, was published in 1781 and reveals a deeply skeptical vision of the cognitive power of medicine.
authors.affiliation: Università di Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jori
mesh_terms: D006666:History of Medicine; D049671:History, 18th Century; D007558:Italy; D008511:Medicine / Q000592:standards