Nunziante Ippolito

Nunziante Ippolito
Born March 24, 1796
Naples
Died 1851
Naples
Nationality Italian
Fields physician and anatomist
Alma mater University of Naples

Nunziante Ippolito (Nunciante) was an Italian physician and anatomist. He studied in Naples and worked in one of the most important hospitals of the Reign of Two Sicilies and Europe, the Ospedale degli Incurabili. He worked also at Pellegrini hospital and at the University of Naples. Ippolito died in 1851.

Velpeau, who read an article,[1] demonstrated that he was the first who used the ligature of the vertebral artery and indicated how to find it.[2]

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References

  1. "Sulla legatura dell'arteria vertebrale ne' casi di aneurismi e di ferite della stessa, Annali clinici dell'Ospedale degl'Incurabili, I [1835], pp. 136-153"
  2. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nunziante-ippolito_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/

Treccani, l' enciclopedia italiana: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nunziante-ippolito_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/

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