Lezioni inedite di ostetricia di Luigi Galvani. Testo con introduzione a cura di Leonardo Giardina. by GALVANI, Luigi (1737-1798) - 1965

Bologna:: S.T.E.B., 1965., 1965. At head of title: Universita di Bologna. . . 245 x 172l mm. 8vo. lxii, 136 pp. Frontis. port., 9 plates, bibliog.; pages xxxi-xxxvi creased with small holes. Gilt-stamped blue leatherette; spine lightly faded, bumped. INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) was appointed as assistant professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. His extraordinary surgical skills went on to earn him the chair in Obstetrics at the Academy of Sciences, of which he later became president in 1772. Galvani famously "caused muscular contraction by touching the exposed muscle of one frog with the nerve of another and thus established for the first time that bioelectric forces exist within living tissue." – [hhp.uh]. PROVENANCE: Professor Franco Crainz (1913-2004) Obstetrics and gynecology, university professor, took his medical degree in 1936 at the University Rome, the Italian Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; he was Head obstetrics-gynecology Department, University Novara, Italy, 1956-1964, later becoming head obstetrics-gynecology Department, University Rome, 1972-1988. Crainz wrote on the history of medicine including a monograph: The Life and Works of Matthew Baillie MD, FRS L&E, FRCP, Etc. (1761-1823), [1995], and, An Obstetric tragedy: the case of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta : some unpublished documents of 1817, [1977], collected books & papers (mostly Italian & European) in the history of gynecology. Posthumously published was a paper with John Dewhurst, "Dr John Sims. A mystery solved", BJOG, 17 May 2005.