Martha Gnudi

medical historian

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, then took charge of the historical and special collections of the Biomedical Library of the University of California at Los Angeles.^[2][3] In 1942, with Cyril Stanley Smith, she translated Vannoccio Biringuccio's 1540 De la pirotechnia,^[4] the first book published on metallurgy. She then wrote, together with Webster, The Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545–1599), a pioneer in plastic and reconstructive surgery.^[5] She was awarded the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine in 1954.^[6] From 1967 almost until her death, Gnudi translated Agostino Ramelli’s 1588 Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine.^[7] She completed the translation, but died on 30 April 1976, before publication.^[8]