Domenico Cotugno
Professor of anatomy, University of Naples
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Domenico Felice Antonio Cotugno was an Italian physician. Biography Born at Ruvo di Puglia into a family of humble means, Cotugno underwent physical and economic hardships to get an education. He was sent to nearby Molfetta for training in Latin, returning to Ruvo for work in logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, and the natural sciences. He soon found his natural bent in medicine and continued his studies from 1753 at the University of Naples, and in 1756 graduated from Salerno medical school. He received his doctorate in philosophy and physics in 1755, and became an assistant at the Ospedale degli Incurabili . In 1761 he became professor of surgery at that hospital, and was subsequently for 30 years professor of anatomy at the high school of Naples. In 1808 he was appointed royal physician to the King of Naples. He ceased lecturing in 1814, and suffered a cerebral embolism in 1818 that recurred in 1822, resulting in his death.
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