Important places related to the history of medicine and other health-related subjects in Padua and its Province, [Italy]. These places are also visible on this Google Map:
Padua
- Basilica of St Anthony with:
- Giovanni Battista Da Monte’s lunette (his home or private clinic?)
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni’s tomb in the Church of San Massimo
- Ospedale di San Francesco Grande
- Museo di Storia della Medicina (MUSME)
- Sala A – former Ospedale di San Francesco Grande’s history
- Sala B – the Paduan University and the Scientific Revolution of XVI Century
- Sala C – Anatomy – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How is the Human Body made?”
- Sala D – Physiology – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How does the Human Body work?”
- Sala E – Pathology – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How does the Human body break down?”
- Sala F – Therapy – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How do you cure the human body?”
- Teatro Anatomico Vesaliano
- Sala esposizioni ematiche
- Museo di Storia della Medicina (MUSME)
- Palazzo del Bo’ with:
- Achille De Giovanni’s portrait
- Anatomical Theatre with Girolamo Fabrizi d’Acquapendente’s bust
- Gabriele Falloppia’s coat of arms
- Galileo Galilei’s fifth lumbar vertebra
- Johann Georg Wirsung’s portrait
- Professors’ skulls in the Hall of Medicine
- Santorio weighing chair (reconstruction)
- Thomas Bartholin’s portrait
- Thomas Linacre’s portrait
- William Harvey’s portrait
- William Harvey’s coat of arms
- Prato della Valle with:
- Saint Luke’s tomb in the Basilica of Santa Giustina
Abano Terme
Bibliography
– AA.VV., Les siècles d’or de la médecine. Padoue XVe-XVIIIe siècles, Electa, Milano 1989.
– P.Del Negro (ed.), The University of Padua. Eight Centuries of History, Signum, Padova 2003, pp. 295
