Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranei.
Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictis, 1518. First edition of the first separate treatise on head injuries and their neurosurgical treatment. “The work originated in a dispute between Berengario (1460-1530) and some other physicians over the treatment of Lorenzo de’ Medici, who had suffered a skull fracture in battle. Berengario described several..... More
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