Nunziante Ippolito (Nunciante; 1796–1851) was an Italian physician and anatomist. He studied in

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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

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. Ippolito died in 1851. Velpeau, who read an article, demonstrated that he was the first who used the ligature of the

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and indicated how to find it.

Bibliography

* Sulla legatura dell'arteria vertebrale ne' casi di aneurismi e di ferite della stessa, Annali clinici dell'Ospedale degl'Incurabili, I 835* Trattato di anatomia, 1842 * Una bizzarra anomalia delle parti sessuali, 1845

References

Treccani, l'enciclopedia italiana: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nunziante-ippolito_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ippolito, Nunziante 1796 births 1851 deaths 19th-century Italian physicians Italian anatomists Physicians from Naples Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people