Antonio Sementini (1743–1814) was a Neapolitan physician.

Biography

Antonio was born in

Mondragone Mondragone (Neapolitan language, Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' or municipality in the Province of Caserta in the Italy, Italian region of Campania. It is located about northwest of Naples and about west of Caserta. History In the Middle Ages, it ...

and began to study medicine at the age of 12 years at the

University of Naples The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

, where he became a professor. Among his many publications were ''Institutiones Medicae'' (1780-1784); Institutiones Physiologicae in usum regii Neapolitanum archigymnasii'' (1794); ''L'arte de curare malattia'' (1801); ''La patologia, ossia della malattia in generale, preceduta per un saggio di esame del sistema de Brown'' (1803).Dizionario biografico universale contente le notizie più importanti sulla vita e sulle opere degli uomini celebri ; i nomi di regie e di illustri famiglie ; di scismi religiosi ; di parti civili ; di sette filosofiche dall'origine del mondo fino a' di nostri
Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 20. One of his pupils was Antonio Savaresi.

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