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2 unusual facts about Luigi Frari


Luigi Frari

His uncle Angelo Antonio Frari was Chief Municipal Physician of Split, famous epidemiologist, historian of medicine and the protomedicus of Venice, whose son Michele Carlo Frari was an illustrious professor of obstetrics at Padua University.

His inaugural dissertation on rabies from 1840 represents an expample of conceptions of that disease in first half of 19th century, before Louis Pasteur's time.



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