SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio [SEVERINUS] (1580 – 1656)
1580 – 1656
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1632 CE
#2273
De recondita abscessuum natura.
The first textbook of surgical pathology. It treats of all kinds of swelling under the term “abscess” and describes neoplasms of the genital organs and sarcoma of bones. Tumors of the breast are classified…
1645 CE
#289
Zootomia Democritaea: Id est, anatome generalis totius animantium opificii....
One of the most important of the early works on comparative anatomy. It includes the Anatomia porci, attributed to Copho of Salerno. Severinus dissected many animals and was convinced that the microscope would throw l…