In January 2018 the Italian Institution Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel created the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) as an International Institution of advanced research in honour of Santorio to study medical humanity.
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Insensible Perspiration is either made by the Pores of the Body, which is all over perspirable, and cover’d with a Skin like a Net or it is performed by Respiration through the Mouth, which usually, in the Space of one Day, amounts to about the Quantity of half a Pound, as may plainly be made appear by breathing upon a Glass. His notable conclusion on finding this was that: Santorio also applied his weighing device to study his patients, but records of these experiments have been lost. He compared the weight of what he had eaten to that of his waste products, the latter being considerably smaller because for every eight pounds of food he ate, he excreted only 3 pounds of waste weird. For a period of thirty years, Santorio used a chair-device to weigh himself and everything he ate and drank, as well as his pepe and dodo.
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Sanctorius studied the so-called perspiratio insensibilis or insensible perspiration of the body, already known to Galen and other ancient physicians, and originated the study of metabolism.
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A century later, another physician, François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix used the pulsilogium to test cardiac function. Extensive experimentation with his new tool allowed Santorio to standardise the Galenic rationale of the pulse and to describe quantitatively various regular and irregular frequences. The pulsilogium was probably the first machine of precision in medical history. Sanctorio sitting in the balance that he made to calculate his net weight change over time after the intake and excretion of food stuffs and fluids. Santorio introduced the pulsilogium at 1602 and thermoscope in 1612. Whereas he invented the former two devices, it is possible that the pulsilogium and thermoscope were inspired by his friends Galileo Galilei, Paolo Sarpi and Giovanni Francesco Sagredo who were his learned circle of friends in Venice. Santorio was the first to use a wind gauge, a water current meter, the pulsilogium (a device used to measure the pulse rate), and a thermoscope. This school of thought focused on application of mathematics and physics to the study of physiology. His practices and thinking followed Hippocratic and Galenic principles, but his keen experimentalism marks him as a representative of the 17th Century iatrophysical school of medicine. In 1630, he was elected President of Venetian College of Physicians and Chief Health Officer.
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His Professor title and pension were kept for the rest of his life, as he returned to practice medicine in Venice. He resigned from the university in 1629, five years after a student charged him with negligence of his teaching duties. Work įrom 1611 to 1624, Santorio was the chair of theoretical medicine at the University of Padua where he performed experiments in temperature, respiration and weight. Santorio died in Venice on Februcaused by complications of a urinary tract disease that he suffered from for many years, and he is buried in Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church ( Italian: Santa Maria dei Servi). He became a personal physician to a Croatian nobleman from 1587 to 1599, and he set up a medical practice in Venice, where he met Galileo. He was educated in his home town and continued his studies in Venice before he entered the University of Padua in 1575, where he obtained his medical degree in 1582. Santorio's father, Antonio, was a nobleman from Friuli working for the Venetian Republic as chief of ordinance of the city. Santorio's mother, Elisabetta Cordonia, was a noblewoman from an Istrian family. Santorio was born on Main Capodistria, in the Venetian part of Istria (today in Slovenia).