Bartolomeo Maggi

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Title page of De Vulnerum Sclopetorum (1552)

Bartolomeo Maggi (Latinized as Bartholomeus Maggius) (August 1477–7 April 1552) was an Italian military surgeon who wrote a work on surgeries in wartime De Vulnerum Sclopetorum, et Bombardarum Curatione Tractatus (1552) which was the first to deal with gunshot wounds.

Maggi was born in Bologna where he trained in surgery. He joined the papal army as a doctor at Rome under Pope Julius III. He served at the sieges of Parma and Mirandola and described treatments for bullet wounds and the management of amputations. Maggi noted that gunshot wounds damaged not by gunpowder toxicity as was then held but through damage to tissue.[1] His work was published posthumously by his brother Giovanni Battista. The Latin term Vulnus sclopetarium referring to gunshot wounds was first used by him.[2] One of his nephews Julius Caesar Arantius (1530–1589) also became a notable surgeon.[3]

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  1. ^ Nakayama, Don K. (2020). "Vesalius: Surgeon to Monarchs". The American Surgeon. 86 (3): 173–175. doi:10.1177/000313482008600323. ISSN 0003-1348.
  2. ^ Partin, C. (2018). "Vulnus sclopetarium (gunshot wound)". Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 31 (2): 231–234. doi:10.1080/08998280.2018.1444299. PMC 5914396. PMID 29706831.
  3. ^ Bir, Shyamal C.; Ambekar, Sudheer; Kukreja, Sunil; Nanda, Anil (2015). "Julius Caesar Arantius (Giulio Cesare Aranzi, 1530–1589) and the hippocampus of the human brain: History behind the discovery". Journal of Neurosurgery. 122 (4): 971–975. doi:10.3171/2014.11.JNS132402. PMID 25574573.

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