Angelo Dubini [SEP] date of birth
Angelo Dubini
Angelo Dubini (8 December 1813 – 28 March 1902) was an Italian physician born in Milan.
He earned his doctorate from the University of Pavia in 1837 and spent most of his professional career at the "Ospedale Maggiore" in Milan. In 1865 he became head physician and director of the hospital's dermatology department.
Dubini is remembered for his discovery of an intestinal parasite he named "Anchylostoma duodenale". He first noticed the parasite in 1838 during an autopsy of a peasant woman who died of
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Italian physician Angelo Dubini was the modern-day discoverer of the worm in 1838 after an autopsy of a peasant woman. Dubini published details in 1843 and identified the species as "A. duodenale". Working in the Egyptian medical system in 1852 German physician Theodor Bilharz, drawing upon the work of colleague Wilhelm Griesinger, found these worms during autopsies and went a step further in linking them to local endemic occurrences of chlorosis, which would probably be called iron