[Lorenzo Bellini (16431704) and his discovery of the renal tubules]

S A Kutia; E A Razumovskaya; A V Grigoryants; T P Sataieva; L R Shaymardanova

[Lorenzo Bellini (16431704) and his discovery of the renal tubules]

Urologiia. 2018 Dec:(5):182-185.

[Article in Russian]

Authors

S A Kutia^{1

2

3

4}, E A Razumovskaya^{1

2

3

4}, A V Grigoryants^{1

2

3

4}, T P Sataieva^{1

2

3

4}, L R Shaymardanova^{1

2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Medical Biology department of Medical Academy named after S.I. Georgievsky of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Russia.
² Department of Russian and Foreign literature of Saratov State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky, Saratov, Russia.
³ Department of Pathology with dissection course of Medical Academy named after S.I. Georgievsky of Vernadsky CFU, Simferopol, Russia.
⁴ Department of Normal Anatomy of Medical Academy named after S.I. Georgievsky of Vernadsky CFU, Simferopol, Russia.

PMID: 30575371

Abstract

In the article the biography of famous Italian doctor and anatomist Lorenzo Bellini who in his student years described a tubule system in the kidneys is reviewed. An authors translation of fragments of his work "Exercitatio anatomica de structura et usu renum" with the description of the discovery as well as the works of Marcello Malpighi "Opera posthuma", which stated the priority of this discovery to Bellini and not to Bartolomeo Eustachi, is provided. The evaluation of the medical and scientific activities of Bellini by his contemporaries is given.

Keywords: Bartolomeo Eustachi; Lorenzo Bellini; Marcello Malpighi; history of medicine; renal tubules.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Italy
Kidney
Kidney Tubules*