Mariano Santo
Surgeon of Barletta, pupil of de Romanis, who published the Marian operation
- Dates
- 1488-1577 (source: Wikipedia, Mariano Santo )
- Chapters
- VI. The Stone-Cutters
What the film says
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Described his teacher de Romanis's method of cutting for the stone.
On the timeline
- c. 1520: De Romanis devises the Marian operation, with a grooved staff to guide the instruments. timeline
- 1522 (Riches; other sources give only 1535): First publication of the Marian method by Mariano Santo, according to Riches, probably within a general surgical work. disputed timeline
- 1535: Mariano Santo's Libellus aureus de lapide a vesica per incisionem extrahendo is published in Venice. timeline
Sources
Sources
- Riches 1967, The history of lithotomy and lithotrity (Arnott Demonstration, RCS) Secondary
- EAU History Office: The Marian method, the apparatus major Museum or society
- Wikipedia, Mariano Santo Secondary