Nunziante Ippolito

Nunziante Ippolito (Nunciante) was an Italian physician and anatomist. He studied in Naples and worked in one of the most important hospitals of the Reign of Two Sicilies and Europe, the Ospedale degli Incurabili. He worked also at Pellegrini hospital and at the University of Naples. Ippolito died in 1851.

Nunziante Ippolito
BornMarch 24, 1796
Died1851
Naples
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Naples
Scientific career
Fieldsphysician and anatomist

Velpeau, who read an article,[1] demonstrated that he was the first who used the ligature of the vertebral artery and indicated how to find it.[2]

Bibliography

  • Sulla legatura dell'arteria vertebrale ne' casi di aneurismi e di ferite della stessa, Annali clinici dell'Ospedale degl'Incurabili, I [1835]
  • Trattato di anatomia, 1842
  • Una bizzarra anomalia delle parti sessuali, 1845

References

  1. "Sulla legatura dell'arteria vertebrale ne' casi di aneurismi e di ferite della stessa, Annali clinici dell'Ospedale degl'Incurabili, I [1835], pp. 136-153"
  2. "Treccani - la cultura italiana | Treccani, il portale del sapere".

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