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Zambeccari (Giuseppe) A large collection of more than 80 autograph letters signed, addressed to Marquesss Camillo Zambeccari in Bologna, in Italian, covering a broad rage of subjects, inlcuding: the benficial effects of the water from the thermal baths in Lucca (29 July 1712); some observations on a cattle disease in the region of Ferrara (17 August 1714); the siege and conquer of Messina during the Spanish Succession War (18 August 1718); the horror felt when learning of the arrest by the Emperor of Maria Clementina Sobieska, while she was on her way to marry the Old Pretender James Francis Edward Stuart (“contro ogni legge umana e divina”) and saying that Princess Violante de’Medici was blaming her sister in law (31 October 1718); philosophical considerations "Afflictions are a dear thing, especially those that God sends with his own hands, not by means of his creatures. Those of his own hands are sicknesses and deaths and these even more than those" (20 July 1722); the unkind treatment of the Dukes Tuscany towards the Dukes of Modena when visiting Florence (1721), some culinary and dietary advice like eating four slices of toasted bread and a couple of fresh eggs in the morning, some toasted bread and meat in the evening, without any fruits or vegetables, wine always to be diluted with water) and discusses the price of chocolate, vanilla, sugar and cinnamon (22 November 1722), browning and age-related toning, offsetting, some pages affected by losses due to ink corrosion, 8vo, 1697-1728, Pisa, Pontremoli, Bologna Firenze; with 25 autograph letters from his son Bernardino Zambeccari, Pisa, 1718-1745 (large quantity) ***Giuseppe Zambeccari (B. Castelfranco di Sotto, Italy, 19 March 1655; d. Pisa, Italy, 13 December 1728) was a prominent Italian physician. After graduating from the Ducal College of Pisa, Zambeccari moved to Florence where he continued his studies under Francesco Redi, who encouraged him to improve his knowledge by working as an intern in the wards of the Hospital of Santa Maria Novella. In 1680 conducted his most important experiments in physiology, which consisted in removing various internal organs from live animals in order to acquire a better understanding of their functions in relation to the whole organism. One of the first series of experiments dealt with the removal of the spleen; several of the animals operated upon survived, and a few months later they were killed and carefully examined in order to discover what anatomical, pathological, and physiological changes had been caused by the removal of the organ. Turning to the study of other organs, Zambeccari performed unilateral nephrectomies and discovered that the animal apparently was not incommoded by the operation. In other experiments he tied the common bile duct and thus demonstrated that bile is not formed in the gall bladder, as was then the common belief. Encouraged by the results of his experiments, he not only removed the bile duct but also fragments of hepatic tissue, and even entire lobes of the liver, always finding that a good percentage of the animals survived the operation. Zambeccari performed a resection of the cecum and finally went so far as to remove the pancreas and to ligate the mesenteric veins. He also studied the eyes and noted that pricking the cornea of various animals rapidly leads to the reconstitution of the aqueous humor. Despite their importance in the history of experimental physiology, Zambeccari’s studies had no immediate impact on biology-in part because too little was known for them to be really useful. Nevertheless, the book in which he described his experiments was for a time rather successful and went through several editions; yet it does not appear to have inspired others to use the same approach. After his period of experimentation with Francesco Redi, Zambeccari returned to Pisa, where he was offered the chair of medicine in 1689. In 1704 he succeeded Bellini in the chair of anatomy. Other works, manuscripts