Emilio Veratti practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Emilio Veratti as Italian anatomist (1872-1967).
Emilio Veratti was born at Varese in 1872. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at University of Bologna and University of Pavia.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Pavia.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Italy matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Emilio Veratti died in 1967, aged 95. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Pavia
