Giuseppe Mariani (doctor)
Giuseppe Mariani (25 February 1885 – 28 December 1963) was an Italian
Life
Giuseppe Mariani was born on 25 February 1885 in
During World War I, Mariani worked at a field hospital on the Austrian front. In late October 1915, he was wounded at Mount San Michele near Gorizia during the Third Battle of the Isonzo. He had been attempting to rescue injured soldiers lying in the open between the two sides, an action for which he received Italy's Silver Medal of Military Valor.[2]
After the war, he taught dermosyphilopathic medicine at the University of Pavia (1921–22), the University of Cagliari on Sardinia (1923–25), and the newly-founded University of Bari (1925–35),[2] where his chair in dermosyphilopathy had been established by Nicola Pende.[1] On 14 December 1925, he founded the Apulian branch of the Italian Society of Dermatology and Syphilography. While at Bari, he also established and ran the university's 100-bed dermosyphilopathic clinic and laboratory with 2 assistants. He served as the university's rector from 1930–35,[2] when he returned to Pavia to succeed Mantegazza as head of the university clinic.[5]
While at Bari, he conducted his own experiments confirming the usefulness of the
In 1937, Mariani moved to
He left the university in 1955 at the age of 70,
Works
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- Sifilide e Matrimonio [Syphilis and Marriage], Pavia: Mattei & Speroni, 1911. (Italian)
- "Osservazioni sopra una Forma di Allergia Cutanea nella Lebbra: Lepra Tubercoloide Sperimentale nell'Uomo [Observations on a Form of Cutaneous Anaphylaxis in Leprosy: Experimental Human Tuberculoid Leprosy]", Pathologica [Pathology], vol. 16, no. 380, vol. 16, Genoa: Società Anatomo-Patologi Ospedalieri Italiani, 15 September 1924, pp. 471–477. (Italian)
- "Nuove Osservazioni sulle Reazioni Provocate Sperimentalmente con Materiale Lebbroso nell'Uomo [New Observations on Reactions Experimentally Provoked with Human Leprose Material]", Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Sifilologia [Italian Journal of Dermatology and Syphilology], no. 66, Turin: Società Italiana di Dermatologia e Sifilografia, 1925, pp. 402–426. (Italian)
- La Questione Sessuale [The Sexual Question], Milan: Istituto Editoriale Scientifico, 1926. (Italian)
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d Ponti & al. (2015), p. 638.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Farnetani (2008).
- ^ Mazzarello & al. (2017), p. 1310.
- ^ Gibson (1999), p. 161.
- ^ Rabbiosi & al. (2015), p. 244.
- ^ Mariani (1924).
- ^ Mariani (1925).
- ^ Muir (1934), p. 83.
- ^ a b c Ponti & al. (2015), p. 639.
- ^ Barabino & al. (2020).
Bibliography
- Barabino, Gianfranco; et al. (June 2020), "Genoa and Leprosy from the Middle Ages to the Present", Giornale Italiano Dermatologia e Venereologia [Italian Journal of Dermatology and Venereology], vol. 155, Turin: Minerva Medica, pp. 346–348, S2CID 220405163.
- Farnetani, Francesca (2008), "Mariani, Giuseppe", Dizionario Biografio degli Italiani [Biographical Dictionary of the Italians], vol. 70. (Italian)
- Gibson, Mary (1999), Prostitution and the State in Italy: 1860–1915, History of Crime and Criminal Justice (2nd ed.), ISBN 978-0-8142-5048-8.
- Mazzarello, Paolo; et al. (2017), "La Facoltà di Medicina [The Medical Faculty]", Almum Studium Papiense: Storia dell'Università di Pavia [History of the University of Pavia], vol. 2, Milan: Cisalpino, pp. 1279–1314. (Italian)
- Muir, Ernest (April 1934), "The Leprolin Test" (PDF), Leprosy Review, vol. 5, no. 2, London: British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, pp. 83–97.
- Ponti, Giovanni; et al. (October 2015), "Giuseppe Mariani: The Biography on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death", Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia [Italian Journal of Dermatology and Venereology], vol. 150, Turin: Minerva Medica, pp. 638–9.
- Rabbiosi, Giacomo; et al. (2015), "Storia della Clinica Dermatologica dell'Università di Pavia [History of the University of Pavia Dermatology Clinic]", Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia [History of Dermatology & Venereology in Italy], Milan: Springer-Verlag Italia, pp. 239–245, ISBN 978-88-470-5716-6. (Italian)