Gabriel Andral e L’Italia Influenze reciproche tra il padre della moderna ematologia e il “Bel Paese”

Abstract

Gabriel Andral (1797-1876) was one of the most emblematic exponent of the French medical revolution of the 19th century and the undisputed father of modern hematology. He spent most of his adolescence in Italy because his father, Guillaume Andral, was a military doctor who became the personal physician of Murat in Naples. Although he lived in Italy just for a few years before going back to France and graduating in Paris, he indeed kept in touch with our Country and strongly affected Italian medicine. As a matter of fact, many of his works were translated into Italian and he soon became well known in the peninsula, playing an important role in the next Italian medical progress.