Vittorio Algarotti
Italian physician
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| Intro | Italian physician | |
| Places | Italy | |
| was | Physician | |
| Work field | Healthcare | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1533, Verona, Province of Verona, Veneto, Italy | |
| Death | 1 January 1604Venice, Province of Venice, Veneto, Italy (aged 71 years) |
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Vittorio Algarotti (1533-1604), was born in Verona 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 trichloride, which he referred to as pulveris angelicus (powder of the angels) to medicine.