Giovanni Rasori

Giovanni Rasori (* August 20th 1766 with Parma; † April 12th 1837 with Milan) was a doctor Italy N.

Born with Parma, it was wire of the director of the pharmacy of the hospital of Parma. Pensioned by the Duke of Parma to go to supplement its medical studies in the foreign universities, he visited to this end Florence, Pavia, London and Milan.

He was named in 1796 professor of Pathologie, then vice-chancellor at the Medical college of Pavia. Favorable to the progressive ideas, it became in 1797 secretary of the ministry for the interior of the République cisalpine in Milan.

It left the city with the French, returned there after the Bataille Marengo (1801), was named first doctor of the government, doctor as a chief of the military hospital, and created courses of private clinic which obtained a great success, and where it taught medical doctrines any news.

It lost its employment in 1814, was implied by the Austria in a conspiracy, and was held in prison until 1818. After its widening, it did not deal any more but with the exercise of its profession.

According to Rasori, almost all the diseases came from stimulative causes, and it is by counter-irritants that one was to treat them: these doctrines, suggested by the writings of Brown, prepared that of Broussais.

One has of Rasori:

a translation of Italian Brown, Pavia, 1792,
a translation of the Zoonomie of Darwin, 1802,
the Theory of the phlogose or ignition , 1837, work where it exposes its system and which was translated into French since 1839.

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