Authorised form of name | Lancisi; Giovanni Maria (1654 - 1720) |
Other forms of surname | L'Ancise |
Dates | 1654 - 1720 |
Nationality | Italian |
Place of birth | Rome, Italy |
Date of birth | 26 October 1654 |
Place of death | Rome, Italy |
Date of death | 20 January 1720 |
Occupation | Physician |
Research field | Medicine |
Activity | Education: 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 category | Fellow |
Date of election | 20/11/1706 |
Relationships | Son of Bartolommeo Lancisi and his wife, Anna Maria Borgiania |
Source | Sources: 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 File | http://viaf.org/viaf/66774462 |
Code | NA6985 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
CLP/22i/75 | Paper, 'Dissertatio de nativis deque adventitiis Romani coeli qualitatibus.... [Discussion concerning the natures of Roman climate, natural and foreign]' by [Jean Marie / Giovanni Maria] Lancisi | c.18th century |
CLP/14i/53 | Paper, 'Responsio almi collegii romanorum archyatrorum ad epistolas clarissimi D Raymundi Vieussens' by Jo Mariam [Giovanni Maria] Lancisi | February 1699 |