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Maurizio Ascoli
Italian internist, born July 1876, Triest.
Associated eponyms:
Ascoli's meiostagmin reaction
Physiological-chemical immunity reaction for demonstrating meiostagmins.
Ascoli's test
Biochemical cancer test based on demonstrating a peculiar isolated disturbance of the lipoid metabolism in persons with malign tumours.
Weichardt's reaction
Test based on the change of surface tension when antigen and antibody react with each other in certain dilutions.
Biography:
Maurizio Ascoli studied in Torino. He was conferred M.D. in 1899 and from 1900 to 1910 was assistant of medical pathology at Deveto in Pavia, where he was habilitated for this discipline in 1904. He became professor of medical pathology in Catania in 1910, in 1927 professor of clinical medicine and in 1929 took over the medical clinic in Palermo. His work concerns chiefly isolysins and precipitins, the explorative cranial punction, alimentary albuminuria, simultaneous bilateral pneumothorax, contralateral pneumothorax, radiotherapy, pharmacodynamics etc.
Bibliography:
- Störung des Lipoidhaushaltes bei malignen tumoren.
Klinische Wochenschrift, Berlin 1935, 14: 1593-1597.
- M. Ascoli, editor:
Nuove vedute sulla malaria.
Roma, Ist bibliogr. ital, 1946. 211 pages.
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