Arnaldo Cantani
Arnaldo Cantani (1837 – 1893) was an Italian physician.
Cantani was a pioneer in the modern management of diabetes and foremost in his insistence that stopping glycosuria was the major method of controlling the disease.
Biography
- Born 15 February 1837
- 1864 – Professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Pavia
- 1868 – Professor of internal medicine at Naples
- Died 30 April 1893 in Napoli
Medical Eponyms
Cantani sign: über dem Bauch hörbares Bläschengeräusch bei Perforationsperitonitis
1866 – Cantani first described the interposition of the intestine between the liver and the diaphragm (Chilaiditi sign) on clinical examination in his Caso di fegato ambulante.
Key Medical Attributions
Major Publications
- Cantani A. Istruzioni popolari concernenti il cholera asiatico. 1873
- Cantani A. Patologia e terapia del ricambio materiale. 1875 [Volume II]
- Cantani A. Le diabète sucré et son traitement diététique. 1876
- Cantani A. Manuale di materia medica e terapeutica basata specialmente sui recenti progressi della fisiologia e della clinica. 1877
- Cantani A. Acireale considered as a climatic station and a bathing town. 1880
- Cantani A. Zur Behandlung des Cholera-Anfalles. 1885
- Cantani A. Die Ergebnisse der Cholera-Behandlung mittelst Hypodermoclyse und Enteroclyse. 1886
- Cantani A. Ueber Antipyrese. 1890
Controversies
References
- Maragliano E. Arnaldo Cantani. In: Le Scuole Italiane di Clinica Medica, Milan. 1894; 1: 3-29.
- Allen FM. Arnoldo Cantani, pioneer of modern diabetes treatment. Diabetes. 1952;1(1):63‐64
- Allen FM, Stillman E, Fitz R. Total dietary regulation in the treatment of diabetes. In: Monographs of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 1919; 11: 30-33
- Barbensi GG. CANTANI, Arnaldo. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 1975: Volume 18
