Antonio Vallisneri [SEP] place of death
Antonio Vallisneri
Antonio Vallisneri (Trassilico,3 May 1661 – Padua,18 January 1730), also rendered as "Antonio Vallisnieri", was an Italian medical scientist, physician and naturalist.
Life.
Vallisneri was born in Trassilico, a small village in Garfagnana, and graduated in medicine in 1684, in Reggio Emilia, under the guidance of Marcello Malpighi.
He studied at Bologna, Venice, Padua and Parma and held the chairs of Practical Medicine first and Theoretical Medicine later at the University of Padua between 1700 and his death
of worms. A French physician named Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard determined that worms were the cause of some diseases. He also declared that worms do not spontaneously form within the animal or human gut; de Bois-Regard stated that there must be some kind of 'seed' which enters the body and contains the worm in some form. Antonio Vallisneri also worked with parasitic worms, specifically members of the genera "Ascaris" and "Neoascaris". He found that these worms came from eggs. In addition, Vallisneri