The authors analyze Attilio Maggia's method of corpse conservation. His method was based on development of formaline vapours and preservation of corpse into a hermetically closed coffin (U.S.Patent 1150688 - Aug. 17, 1915). The corpses preserved could also be hardened after the treatment, exposing them to the air. Attilio Maggia (1864-1945) treated the corpse of italian writer Giovanni Verga (1840-1922). Some Maggia's preparations were preserved into obstetrical museum at Milan University: they are lost, but some records remain (an old inventory register) and attest us the industry of this physician.

La conservazione indefinita del cadavere : le preparazioni di Attilio Maggia=Corpe conservation: Attilio Maggia's preparations / A. Porro, A.F. Franchini, P.M. Galimberti, L. Lorusso, B. Falconi. - In: MEDICINA NEI SECOLI. - ISSN 0394-9001. - 27:2(2015), pp. 653-700.

La conservazione indefinita del cadavere : le preparazioni di Attilio Maggia=Corpe conservation: Attilio Maggia's preparations

A. Porro;A.F. Franchini;
2015

Abstract

The authors analyze Attilio Maggia's method of corpse conservation. His method was based on development of formaline vapours and preservation of corpse into a hermetically closed coffin (U.S.Patent 1150688 - Aug. 17, 1915). The corpses preserved could also be hardened after the treatment, exposing them to the air. Attilio Maggia (1864-1945) treated the corpse of italian writer Giovanni Verga (1840-1922). Some Maggia's preparations were preserved into obstetrical museum at Milan University: they are lost, but some records remain (an old inventory register) and attest us the industry of this physician.
Corpse conservation; Anatomical preparations; Medical museology
Settore MED/02 - Storia della Medicina
2015
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