| Description Of Item | Eduardo Porro (1842–1902) was an Italian obstetrician. He was born in Padua and took his MD in 1865 at the University of Pavia, where, after spending several years as assistant at the Ospedale Maggiore at Milan, he became professor of obstetrics (1875). From 1885 to 1892, he held a similar chair at Milan. Porro improved the so-called Cæsarean operation by excision of the uterus and adnexae, described in Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo (1876), the best known of his writings. In 1891, he was named Senator of the Kingdom by King Humbert I.
Deposited with the collection of John Strong. |