Disease of the kidney and of the urinary tract in De Medicina Methodica (Padua, 1611) of Prospero Alpini (1563-1616).

Aim: The study was devised to understand the contribution to nephrology ofDe Medicina Methodicaof Prospero Alpini published in 1511, at a time when the fame of the professor reached the azimuth.

Method: We have analyzed the contents of chapters devoted to nephrology in that book of Prospero Alpini and the novelties of his message.

Results: Prospero Alpini (1563-1616) taught at the University of Padua (1594-1616), at the same time of Galileo Galilei, Santorio Santorio, and Girolamo Fabrizi dAcquapendente, when measurements (pulse, temperature, perspiration) were introduced into medicine.

[Peter of Abano and anatomy].

Peter of Abano was greatly interested to the anatomy. Sure indications of his dissections are had; in the De venenis he reported the first autopsy, antecedent to 1316, of which sure news in Padua is had. The table of abdominal muscles, first published in the edition Venetiis 1496 of the Conciliator, is carefully considered.