Luigi Maria Bossi (Malnate, 30 December 1859 – Milan, 1 February 1919) was a

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and Italian politician. He was director of the Institute of Obstetrics in

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and of a Genoese clinic. In 1898, in Genoa, he operated on Constance Lloyd, the wife of

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, who died a few days after the operation. He was elected to Parliament for the

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in the twenty-first Legislature of the Kingdom of Italy (1900-1904). He was assassinated by the husband of a patient for "a grossly unethical personal relationship with a patient".

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1859 births 1919 deaths 19th-century Italian physicians 20th-century Italian physicians Assassinated Italian politicians Italian gynaecologists Politicians assassinated in the 1910s {{Italy-politician-stub