[THE HANOVERIAN SCHOLAR AND THE DOCTOR OF THE PEASANTS].

Authors :: Giampietri F
Source :: Medicina nei secoli [Med Secoli] 2015; Vol. 27 (1), pp. 5-28.
Publication Year :: 2015
Abstract: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Bernardino Ramazzini met in Modena in autumn 1689, and made friends. Rereading their correspondence and finding other coeval documents, the author reconstructs a scientific relation forgotten by historians. They not only discussed on air pollution, artesian wells and barometric forecast, but - more generally - favored the foundation of social medicine on epidemiology. Hence the Leibnizian contribution to the European fortune of Third Hippocrates.