In the history of medicine, Antonio Maria Valsalva is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Antonio Maria Valsalva as Italian physician.
Antonio Maria Valsalva was born at Imola in 1666. His recorded nationality is Papal States. He trained at University of Bologna.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
His posts were held at University of Bologna.
The recorded fields of work are anatomy.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Papal States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Antonio Maria Valsalva died in 1723, aged 57. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Bologna
- Fields: anatomy
