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Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri

Born  1772
Died  1826

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Italian surgeon, born February 3, 1772, Pisa; died September 6, 1826, Orzignano, near Pisa..

Biography of Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri

Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri was the son of Francesca Vaccà Berlinghieri (1732–1812), professor of medicine at Pisa. After attending school, Berlinghieri in 1787 was sent to Paris with his four year older brother Leopold to study medicine. In Paris Pierre Joseph Desault (1744–1795) and Jean Louis August Baudelocque (1745–1810) were among his teachers. After two years i Paris Andrea and his brother went to London, particularly attracted by John Hunter (1728–1793). Upon their return the revolution was in full swing and they traveled home to Pisa, where Andrea was conferred doctor of medicine in 1791 – aged 19 years.

Two years later he wrote Reflessioni sul trattato di chirurgia del Sig. Begnamino Bell and began giving lectures that were very well attended. In 1799 he went once more to Paris where he received education from Philippe Jean Pelletan (1747–1829), Baudelocque, Baron Alexis de Boyer (1757– 1833), and Baron Antoine Dubois (1756–1837). Besides medicine, he concerned himself with studies of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and astronomy. During his stay in Paris he wrote, in the French language, Traité des maladies vénériennes (Paris 1800). This text was revised by Pierre-Philippe Alyon (1758–1816).

Upon his return to Pisa, Berlinghieri was appointed professor of surgery, an event that is considered the beginning of a new school of Pisa. His reputation soon brought patients from all over Europe, and even the Orient, to Pisa. A friend of the anatomist Paolo Mascagni (1752–1815), he published the outstanding anatomical plates from Mascagni's Grande anatomia.

Berlinghieri was the first in Italy to perform John Hunter's procedure for aneurisma of the poplietal fossa.

Bibliography

  • Reflessioni sul trattato di chirurgia del Sig. Begnamino Bell. 2 volumes. Pisa, 1793)
    Referring to the famous Edinburgh surgeon Benjamin Bell (1749–1806).
  • Traité des maladies vénériennes. Paris 1800.
  • Mémoire sur les fractures des côtes.
    Mémoires de la Société médicale d’émulation de Paris, 1800, T. III.
    Paper presented at this Society.
  • Mémoire sur la structure du péritoine et ses rapports avec les viscères abdominaux.
    Mémoires de la Société médicale d’émulation de Paris, 1800, T. III.
    Paper presented at this Society.
  • Storia dell' anevrisma etc. Pisa, 1803.
    With John Hunter's procedure for aneurisma of the poplietal fossa.
  • Memoria sopra l'allacciatura delle arterie. Pisa, 1819.
    With John Hunter's procedure for aneurisma of the poplietal fossa.
  • Della esofagotomia e di un nuovo metodo di eseguirla. Pisa, 1820.
  • Memoria sopra il metodo di estarre la pietra della vesica orinaria per la via dell' intestine retto. Pisa, 1821. French translation by Blaquière, Paris, 1821.
    Advocating the recto-vesical cut for stones.
  • Memoria seconda etc. Pisa, 1820.
    French translation together with the previous treatise by Morin, Genève, 1823. Advocating the recto-vesical cut for stones.
  • Memoria terze sul taglio retto-vesicale del prof. Vacca Berlinghieri, e lettere sul medesimo soggetto dei Signori Cavarra e Giorgi, professori di chirurgia. Pisa, 1823.
    Still advocating the recto-vesical cut for stones.
  • Istoria di una allaciatura dell' iliaca esterna e riflessioni sull' allaciatura temporaria delle grandi trichiasis. Pisa, 1823. Here berlinghieri declares himself against temporary artery ligature, a procedure then suggested by several surgeons.
  • Nuevo metodo di curare lo trichiasis. Omodei, Annali Universali di Medicina e Statistica, 1825.
  • Sulla litotomia nei due sessi. Quarta memoria.
    Pisa, 1825. French translation by Morin, Genève, 1826.
    Describing the median cut. For women, Berlinghieri advocated the vesico-vaginal cut.
  • Trattato degli stringimenti dell' uretra.
  • Memoria sulla rescisione della metà della mascella inferiore.
  • Memoria sulla frattura del collo del femore.

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