Nunziante Ippolito (Nunciante) was an Italian physician and anatomist. He studied in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

and worked in one of the most important hospitals of the Reign of Two Sicilies and Europe, the

Ospedale degli Incurabili The Ospedale degli Incurabili (''Hospital for the Incurables'') or Complesso degli Incurabili is an ancient and prominent hospital complex located on Via Maria Longo in central Naples, Italy. Part of the complex, including the remarkable pharma ...

. He worked also at Pellegrini hospital and 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 ...

. Ippolito died in 1851. Velpeau, who read an article, demonstrated that he was the first who used the ligature of the

vertebral artery The vertebral arteries are major arteries An artery (plural arteries) () is a blood vessel in humans and most animals that takes blood away from the heart to one or more parts of the body (tissues, lungs, brain etc.). Most arteries carry o ...

and indicated how to find it.

Bibliography

* Sulla legatura dell'arteria vertebrale ne' casi di aneurismi e di ferite della stessa, Annali clinici dell'Ospedale degl'Incurabili, I

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* Trattato di anatomia, 1842 * Una bizzarra anomalia delle parti sessuali, 1845

References

Treccani, l'enciclopedia italiana: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nunziante-ippolito_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ippolito, Nunziante 1796 births 1851 deaths 19th-century Italian physicians Italian anatomists Physicians from Naples