Mar 31, 1802Ripabottoni, Molise, ItalyDied on 04 Jun 1875 (aged 73)Aries
About Pietro Ramaglia
Pietro Ramaglia (1802-1875) was an Italian physician and surgeon.
He is considered one of the leading figures in the history of medicine in Molise and of the neapolitan medicine of his time.
Indeed, he was one of the most important doctors of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, being he the personal physician of the King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.
In medicine he was one of the proponents of the experimental anatomo-clinical method and founder of the Neapolitan positive-naturalistic school that opposed the vitalist theories then in vogue and supported in Milan by Giovanni Rasori and in Bologna by Giacomo Tommasini with his "New Italian Medical Doctrine".