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BENIVIENI, Girolamo (1453 – 1542)

BENIVIENI, Girolamo (1453 – 1542)

1453 – 1542

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Probably Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio · nationalgallery.org.uk · Public domain

1507 CE

#2270

De abditis nonnulus ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis. Edited by Girolamo Benivieni.

Antonio Benivieni's The hidden causes of diseases was the first book on pathological anatomy, presenting the first reports of autopsies made specifically to determine the cause of death. The work records twenty post-m…