Francesco Antonio Canaveri (1753-1836) was an Italian

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and

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. He was a tenacious opponent of the doctrines of Cullen and

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Biography

Francesco Canaveri was born in 1753 in

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, Italy, son of a distinguished family of Piedmontese patricians. After finishing high school, he began his studies in

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and

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in the

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. In 1788, he was elected to the post of prefect in the Turin School of Medicine In 1796 Canaveri became professor of materia medica and anatomy of the Università degli Studi di Torino. In 1799 during the

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ic occupation of Piedmont, Canaveri had been chosen to lead medical schools beyond the

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. Between 1800-1814 he was appointed

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of the medical schools. In 1807, Canaveri sent to

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a work on

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observations, and for the year 1815, another paper on the usefulness of physiological notions for

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and practical medicine. He also had made some writings in medical

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. He was the author of several popular works in this matter, including ''De vitalitatis oeconomia'' (1801), ''Saggio sopra il dolore: dissertazione'' (1803), ''Analyse et réfutation des élémens de médecine du D. J. Brown'' (1805) and ''Neuronomia'', (1836) published after his death. Francesco Canaveri maintained friendship ties with notable personalities of science such as Francesco Rossi and Giovanni Francesco Cigna, members of the

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. He died in February, 1836 in Turin at the age of 82 years.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Canaveri, Francesco 1754 births 1836 deaths People from Mondovì People from the Kingdom of Sardinia 19th-century Italian writers 19th-century male writers Italian anatomists 18th-century Italian physicians 19th-century Italian physicians University of Turin alumni Canaveri family