Santorio Santorio

Santorio Santorio

▪ Italian physician
Latin  Sanctorius, or Santorius  
born March 29, 1561, Capodistria [now Koper, Slovenia]
died Feb. 22, 1636, Venice [Italy]
 Italian physician who was the first to employ instruments of precision in the practice of medicine, and whose studies of basal (basal metabolic rate) metabolism introduced quantitative experimental procedure into medical research.

      Santorio was a graduate of the University of Padua (M.D., 1582), where he later became professor of medical theory (1611–24). About 1587 he was apparently summoned to attend as physician on a Croatian nobleman. From 1587 to 1599 Santorio seems to have spent much time among the southern Slavs, though he maintained a frequent correspondence with his Paduan colleagues, the astronomer Galileo Galilei and the anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus). Santorio was an early exponent of the iatrophysical school of medicine, which attempted to explain the workings of the animal body on purely mechanical grounds, and he adapted several of Galileo's inventions to medical practice, resulting in his development of a clinical thermometer (1612) and a pulse clock (1602).

      Endeavouring to test the Greek physician Galen's assertion that respiration also occurs through the skin as “insensible perspiration,” Santorio constructed a large scale on which he frequently ate, worked, and slept, so that he might study the fluctuations of his body weight in relation to his solid and liquid excretions. After 30 years of continuous experimentation, he found that the sum total of visible excreta was less than the amount of substance ingested. His De Statica Medicina (1614; “On Medical Measurement”) was the first systematic study of basal metabolism.

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