Augustus Granville
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Augustus Bozzi Granville MD
, FRS
(born Augusto Bozzi, 7 October 1783 – 3 March 1872) was a physician, writer, and Italian patriot.
Born in Milan, he studied medicine before leaving to avoid being enlisted in Napoleon's army. After practicing medicine in Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal, he joined the British Navy and sailed to the West Indies. There he learned English and married an Englishwoman. He later moved to London, where he practiced as a physician and writer. He is credited with carrying out the first medical autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian Mummy
which he described to the Royal Society of London in 1825.
Doctor of Medicine
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, FRS
Royal Society
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(born Augusto Bozzi, 7 October 1783 – 3 March 1872) was a physician, writer, and Italian patriot.
Born in Milan, he studied medicine before leaving to avoid being enlisted in Napoleon's army. After practicing medicine in Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal, he joined the British Navy and sailed to the West Indies. There he learned English and married an Englishwoman. He later moved to London, where he practiced as a physician and writer. He is credited with carrying out the first medical autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian Mummy
Mummy
A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...
which he described to the Royal Society of London in 1825.
Selected Works
- A catechism of facts : or, Plain and simple rules respecting the nature, treatment, and prevention of cholera (1832)
- Extracts from a work on counter-irritation, its principles and practice (1839)
- The sumbul : a new Asiatic remedy of great power against nervous disorders, spasms of the stomach cramp, hysterical affections, paralysis of the limbs, and epilepsy (1859)