Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1620

SALVATORE DE RENZI (1800-1872) Collectio Salernitana. Dalla tipografia del Filiatre-Sebezio 1852-1856 Vol. I: xvi, 535 [1] pp.; Vol. II: [4] 800 pp., illus.; Vol. III: iv, 346 [2] pp.; Vol. IV: [4] 622 [2] pp. 23 cm.

Renzi, the noted medical historian, received his medical degree at Naples where he spent the greater part of his career on the faculty. He first served as professor of pathology and hygiene and later as professor of the history of medicine. He was also physician to the city hospital and was a sanitary inspector during the cholera epidemic of 1836. In the present work Renzi has written a comprehensive history of the School of Salerno including texts and documents from the many individuals who were associated with the school during its long and famous history. Notable among teachers were Gariopontus (d. ca. 1050), Trotula, Joannes Platearius, Nicolaus Salernitanus, Constantine the African, Copho, and Roger of Salerno. The school, known as early as the ninth century, reached the height of its development during the twelfth century and was still well known through the fourteenth century. The University of Iowa Libraries' set is wanting Volume V which was published in 1859.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 49; Osler 3903; Waller 14825