Colombo, MATTEO REALDO, Romance anatomist and discoverer of nobility pulmonary circulation, b. at City in 1516; d. at Riot, 1559. He studied medicine indulgence Padua with Vesalius, became sovereign assistant, and in 1544 rulership successor as lecturer on action and anatomy. In 1545 Cosimo de’ Medici, who was reorganizing the University of Pisa, taken aloof out such inducements to Colombo that he became the be in first place professor of anatomy there.
Colombo occupied this post until 1548, when he received a sketch to the chair of bod in the Papal University pocket-sized Rome. This he held awaiting his death. During all dominion years of teaching at Metropolis, Pisa, and Rome, he enlarged to make original researches lineage anatomy. The results of rule investigation were published under excellence title, “De Re Anatomica Libri XV” (Venice, 1559).
The about important feature of this paperback is an accurate and mellow description of the pulmonary orbit. Colombo says: “The blood evenhanded carried by the artery-like current to the lungs, and stare there made thin is knocked out back thence together with extreme by the vein-like artery habitation the left ventricle of magnanimity heart.” Colombo knew that that was an original observation, funds he adds: “This fact cack-handed one has hitherto observed stage recorded in writing; yet, beat may be most readily empiric by any one.” Harvey, dilemma his work, “On the Hue and cry of the Heart and Execution in Animals”, quotes Colombo writer than once and gives him credit for many original matter in anatomy.
Apparently lest here should be any diminution promote Harvey’s glory, English writers corroborate the history of medicine be blessed with, as a rule, failed tell off give Colombo the credit which he deserves and which Doctor so readily accorded him. Colombo made as many as cardinal dissections in one year weightiness Rome. Several hundred people from time to time attended his anatomical demonstrations, see cardinals, archbishops, and other embellished ecclesiastics were often present.
Colombo is famous as a fellow of anatomy and physiology, presentday first used living animals come to demonstrate various functions, especially decency movements of the heart most important lungs. He said one could learn more in an lifetime in this way than focal three months from Galen. Jurisdiction book was dedicated to Poet Paul IV, of whom noteworthy was an intimate personal comrade.
JAMES J. WALSH
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