Arnaldo Cantani

Biography

• Born February 15, 1837
• 1864 – Professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Pavia
• 1868 – Professor of internal medicine at Naples
• Died 30 April 1893 in Napoli

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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.

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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

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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