Giovanni Maria Lancisi ( 1654 - 1720 )

Birth: Rome, Italy (26 October 1654) Death: Rome, Italy (20 January 1720) Profession: Physician Research Field: Medicine Education: Collegio Romano; La Sapienza, Rome; MD (1672) Career: Doctor at the Hospital of Santo Spirito (1675); member of the Collegio del Salvatore (1678); Professor of Anatomy at La Sapienza (1684-1697); Physician to the Popes Innocent XI, Innocent XII and Clement XI (1688-death); Head of the Pontifical College for conferring medical degrees; attributed the prevalence of malaria in Rome to mosquitoes and advocated draining the surrounding marshes, without success, but used conchona bark in its treatment; amassed a medical library of 29,000 volumes which he left to Santo Spirito with his papers Membership: Fellow Election Date: 20/11/1706.