Antonio Maria Valsalva - bibliography
Related eponyms
- Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva
- Petit's sinuses
- Valsalva's antrum
- Valsalva's dysphagia
- Valsalva's ligaments
- Valsalva's manoeuvre
- Valsalva's muscle
- Valsalva's sinuses
Biography
Italian anatomist, born June 17, 1666, Imola, in Romagna; died February 2, 1723. Bologna.
Bibliography
- Sulla superiorità delle dottrine sperimentali.
Doctoral dissertation; Bologna, June 10, 1687. - De aure humana tractatus : in quo integra ejusdem auris fabrica, multis novis inventis, & iconismis illustrata, describitur; omniumque ejus partium usus indagantur : quibus interposita est musculorum uvulae, atque pharyngis nova descriptio, et delineatio / auctore Antonio Maria Valsalva Imolensi.
Bononiae, typis Constantini Pisari, ad S. Michaelem, 1704. Utrecht 1717.
Leiden: Apud Gisbertum Langerak & Johannes Hasebroek, 1735.
Geneva (Ginevra), 1737; Venice.
1740 (published by Morgagni with a biography of Valsalva); Leiden, 1742. Bologna, 1794.
The preparation of the drawings was probably influenced by Eustachi’s plates, which Valsalva greatly admired. Second edition: - De aure humana tractatus : in quo integra auris fabrica, multis novis inventis & iconismis illustrata, describitur; omniumque ejus partium usus indagantur : quibus interposita est musculorum uvulae, atque pharyngis nova descriptio, et delineatio / auctore Antonio Maria Valsalva Imolensi.
Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht] : ex officina Guilielmi vande Water, 1707. - Opera. 3 volumes in 1. Venetiis, apud Franciscum Pitteri, 1740.
- G. B. Morgagni:
De vita et scriptis Antonii Mariae Valsalvae commentariolum. Venice, 1740.
Valsalva was deeply interested in pathology throughout his life, and Morgagni's great work, De sedibus, contains much material collected by Valsalva. In this work his beloved pupil, Morgagni, assembled and published posthumously his teachers anatomical works. Biographical etc. - Terzo centenario della nascita di Antonio Maria Valsalva.
Imola, 1966. A collection of Valsalva’s work. - G. Bilancioni:
La figura e l’opera di Valsalva. In his Sulle rive de Lete. Rome, 1930: 77-100. - P. Capparoni:
Antonio Maria Valsalva. Profili bio-bibliografici di medici e naturalissti celebri italiani dal secolo XV al secolo XVIII. Rome, 1932: 92-94. - P. Ravanelli:
M. Valsalva (1666-1723) anatomico-medico-chirurgo-primo psichiatra. Imola, 1966. - B. Bugyi:
Antonio Maria Valsalva, der vergessene Begründer der klinischen Pathologie.
Grünenthal Waage, 1968, 7: 103-108 - L. di Florio:
I presupposti del metodo morgagnano (clinico-anatomopatologico) in Valsalva.
Medicina nei Secoli, Roma, 1966, 3, H.3: 17-20.
