Francesco Torti ( 1658 - 1741 )

Birth: Modena, Italy (30 November 1658) Death: 15 February 1741 Burial: Church of S Agostino (Sta Maria della Pomposa), Modena, Italy Education: Bologna; MD (1678) Career: Practised in Modena; one of the first Professors of Medicine at Modena on the foundation of the University (1682); Physician to the Dukes of Modena; was offered and declined chairs of medicine at Turin (1717) and Padua (1720); Advisor on public health to the city government of Modena; President of the College of Medicine of Modena; friend of Marquis Giovanni Giuseppe Orsi (FRS 1716) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 14/11/1717.