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Authorised form of nameLancisi; Giovanni Maria (1654 - 1720)
Other forms of surnameL'Ancise
Dates1654 - 1720
NationalityItalian
Place of birthRome, Italy
Date of birth26 October 1654
Place of deathRome, Italy
Date of death20 January 1720
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldMedicine
ActivityEducation:
Collegio Romano; La Sapienza, Rome; MD (1672)
Career:
Doctor at the Hospital of Santo Spirito (1675); member of the Collegio del Salvatore (1678); Professor of Anatomy at La Sapienza (1684-1697); Physician to the Popes Innocent XI, Innocent XII and Clement XI (1688-death); Head of the Pontifical College for conferring medical degrees; attributed the prevalence of malaria in Rome to mosquitoes and advocated draining the surrounding marshes, without success, but used conchona bark in its treatment; amassed a medical library of 29,000 volumes which he left to Santo Spirito with his papers
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/11/1706
RelationshipsSon of Bartolommeo Lancisi and his wife, Anna Maria Borgiania
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Hirsch
References:
Marie Boas Hall, 'The Royal Society and Italy 1667-1795' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 63-81
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/66774462
CodeNA6985
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
CLP/22i/75Paper, 'Dissertatio de nativis deque adventitiis Romani coeli qualitatibus.... [Discussion concerning the natures of Roman climate, natural and foreign]' by [Jean Marie / Giovanni Maria] Lancisic.18th century
CLP/14i/53Paper, 'Responsio almi collegii romanorum archyatrorum ad epistolas clarissimi D Raymundi Vieussens' by Jo Mariam [Giovanni Maria] LancisiFebruary 1699
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