Ruggero Oddi practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Ruggero Oddi as Italian physiologist (1864–1913).
Ruggero Oddi was born at Perugia in 1864. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at University of Bologna and University of Florence.
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 Genoa.
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.
Ruggero Oddi died in 1913, aged 49. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Genoa
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