The Dominant Medical Thought against the Epidemics: the Interpretation of the Cholera at its First Appearance in Italy (1833-37)
Authors
Rosa Napoliello Balfour
DEA in History of Medicine, Practical School of Advanced Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris
Keywords:
Cholera , Interpretation , Rise , Italy
Abstract
For the present study the history of Italian medical thought original texts published during the first cholera epidemic in Italy (1835-37) by Tommasini, Giacomini, Pirondi, Bufalini are analyzed. Tommasini, Giacomini and Pirondi, belonging to the Rasorian School, nonetheless develope different positions: Pirondi is a strict Rasorian, Giacomini defines a neuro-vascular theory including a symptomatic analysis, Tommasini syncretizes the Italian irritation theses, expanding Rasorian thought to include qualitative variations. Bufalini, by contrast, developes an epidemiological-materialistic theory.
