Marcello MALPIGHI (1628- 1694) Italian biologist and physician, father of microscopic anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology. L.A.S., Rome December 15, 1691, [to Professor Ippolito Francesco Albertini of Bologna?]; 1 1/2 pages large in-8; in Italian.
Rare letter of medical consultation (or consilium). [Malpighi has just left Bologna to go to Rome and become personal physician to the newly elected Pope Innocent XII; Albertini (1662-1746) had been Malpighi's pupil, and was continuing his work and teaching in Bologna on pulmonary diseases and blood circulation].
He is sorry about the persistence of the illness that is troubling the child of the most honored Countess Elena [Aldovrandi]; it must be an anomaly of the lymph that disturbs the respiratory tract and then the whole organism. The remedies indicated seem sufficient to me, and everything must be done to moderate the humors so that the respiratory tract ailment does not worsen. We could also try a four-ounce dose of goat's milk serum. All should be well by the next solstice.... Malpighi instructs his correspondent to greet Countess Elena and the Count, as well as the most honored Lady Olimpia Fontana, also on behalf of his Francesca, who, thank God, is in good health....
Correspondence of Marcello Malpighi (ed. Adelmann, 1975; t IV, no. 920). Former collection of the American cardiologist Myron Prinzmetal (1908-1987).
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