Gjuro Baglivi

Giorgio Baglivi , born Giorgio Armeno and sometimes anglicized as George Baglivi, was an ArmenioItalian physician and scientist. He made important contributions to clinical education, based on his own medical practice. His De Fibra Motrice advanced the solidist theory that the solid parts of organs are more crucial to their good functioning than their fluids, against the traditional belief in four humors. Baglivi, however, advocated against doctors relying on any general theory rather than careful observation. He was a distinguished physiological researcher fascinated by the nerves, his microscopic studies enabled him to distinguish between smooth and striated muscles and distinct kinds of fibres.

Giorgio was born to Blasius Armeno and Anna de Lupis on September1608, 1668, in Ragusa . His parents were respectable but poor merchants of Armenian descent who both died in 1670, after the birth of Giorgios younger brother Jacob . The brothers were originally raised by their uncle and educated at Ragusas Jesuit college.

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