About Vittorio Algarotti
Lived 1533 – 1604 (aged 70–71). Vittorio Algarotti was an Italian physician.
Vittorio Algarotti (1533-1604), was born in Verona, Republic of Venice, and was president of the Verona College of Medicine from 1593 through his death in 1604. A contemporary of Paracelsus, he introduced the use of antimony oxychloride, which he referred to as pulveris angelicus (powder of the angels) to medicine.
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Italian physician
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Vittorio Algarotti was born in 1533 in Verona.
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Vittorio Algarotti died in 1604 in Venice.
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Vittorio Algarotti was a physician.
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