In the history of medicine, Giovanni Domenico Santorini is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giovanni Domenico Santorini as Italian anatomist (1681-1737).
Giovanni Domenico Santorini was born at Venice in 1681. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at University of Pisa.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Italy matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Giovanni Domenico Santorini died in 1737, aged 56. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
