The history of Italian parasitology
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The Roman era
During Roman times, a group of agricultural and medical writers, with varying backgrounds, reported in their scripts a number of observations relevant to veterinary and medical parasitology. It is interesting to observe that numerous reports were relevant to sheep, a domestic animal species mostly appreciated at that time for wool and meat.
Marcus Portius Cato the Elder (or the Censor) (234–149 b.c.), the first of the Roman agricultural writers, in his De rustica (Chapter 96, Oves ne scabrae
The 1600s — The Academies, the microscope and the introduction of experimental medicine
At the beginning of the 1600s two interesting publications on worms came to light in Italy. The first, De vermibus tractatus was by the Neapolitan De Urso (1601). In this treatise, which is divided into 14 chapters, he discusses the worms present in the human body, as well as their prevention and treatment. The second publication, “Trattato sopra li vermi”, a booklet of 30 pages, is the work of Salando (1607), a physician from Verona. Being written in Italian and with large type, the book had a
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