A Correspondence Lost in Time: Some Letters from Vincenzo Malacarne di Saluzzo

Abstract

This article highlights the figure of the surgeon and neuroanatomist Vincenzo Giacinto Malacarne through a new perspective, that of his “Lettere famigliari”, manuscript so far unpublished. These letters inform us about his private life, his friends and habits, and allow us to better understand  the cultural level of medicine at the end of the 18^th century and in the first decades of the 19^th century.

Parole chiave: Vincenzo Malacarne, Medicina, Storia della Neurologia