| Antonio Benivieni |
| Born |
1443 |
| Died |
1502 |
| Nationality |
Italy |
| Fields |
medicine |
| Known for |
autopsy |
Antonio Benivieni (1443–1502) was a Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy, a postmortum dissection of a deceased patient's body used to understand the cause of death.[1] Benivieni published a treatise entitled De Abditis Morborum Causis ("The Hidden Causes of Disease") which is now considered one of the first works in the science of Pathology.[2] Some of the protocols developed by Benivieni are similar to those used in autopsies to this day, and he has been referred to as the "father of pathologic anatomy."[3]
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Benivieni, Antonio |
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| Date of birth |
1443 |
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| Date of death |
1502 |
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