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Francesco Antonio Canaveri (1753-1836) was an Italian Physician and Professor of Anatomy. He was a tenacious opponent of the doctrines of Cullen and Brown[1]

Francesco Antonio Canaveri
Professor of medicine of the University of Turin
Personal details
Born	1753 Mondovì, Cuneo, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia
Died	1836 Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Professor Physician
Profession	Medic

Biography

Francesco Canaveri was born in 1753 in Mondovì, Italy, son of a distinguished family of Piedmontese patricians. After finishing high school, he began his studies in Rhetoric and Philosophy in the University of Turin.[2] In 1788, he was elected to the post of prefect in the Turin School of Medicine

In 1796 Canaveri became professor of materia medica and anatomy of the Università degli Studi di Torino.[3] In 1799 during the Napoleonic occupation of Piedmont, Canaveri had been chosen to lead medical schools beyond the Alps. Between 1800-1814 he was appointed Inspector of the medical schools.[4]

In 1807, Canaveri sent to Padua a work on physiological observations, and for the year 1815, another paper on the usefulness of physiological notions for pathology and practical medicine.[5] He also had made some writings in medical neurology. He was the author of several popular works in this matter, including De vitalitatis oeconomia (1801),[6] Saggio sopra il dolore: dissertazione (1803),[7] Analyse et réfutation des élémens de médecine du D. J. Brown (1805) and Neuronomia, (1836) published after his death.[8]

Francesco Canaveri maintained friendship ties with notable personalities of science such as Francesco Rossi[9] and Giovanni Francesco Cigna, members of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.[10] He died in February, 1836 in Turin at the age of 82 years.[11]

References

External links

• reader.digitale
• cisui.unibo.it

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