Riccardo Pampuri

Italian medical doctor and Hospitaller Brother, 20th‑century Catholic saint (1897–1930)

Riccardo Pampuri practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.

The record lists Riccardo Pampuri as Italian medical doctor and Hospitaller Brother, 20th‑century Catholic saint (1897–1930).

Riccardo Pampuri was born at Province of Pavia in 1897. His recorded nationality is Italy.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.

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.

Riccardo Pampuri died in 1930, aged 33. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.

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