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Nice set of correspondence, recipes, newspaper clippings, notes relating to Augusto Murri, Doctor, Politician, Professor of Medicine and Director of the University Medical Clinic of Bologna (Fermo, 8 September 1841 – Bologna , 11 November 1932), tamong the most illustrious clinicians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (he directed the new Sant'Orsola university hospital in Bologna). His research in the medical field led him to anticipate the rationalist method and to support greater application of direct observation of the patient and his pathology.
The set includes: 16 autographed and signed letters< /b>, a signed typescript, 4 letters marked in mourning with two envelopes, some empty envelopes, 11 pizzini with recipes signed by Murri, some newspaper clippings for the 90 years of the doctor and obituaries for his death at 91. Most of the correspondence is directed to a single person, a patient of his from Livorno named Lina Marzoppini.
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Murri anticipated the rationalist method that would remain his and his school's hallmark. The Italian clinic, represented by Baccelli, Antonio Cardarelli and Murri, thus took a stand against the approach, rooted in Germany, of a diagnosis based mainly on laboratory tests, instead advocating the importance of direct and careful observation of the patient and the need for clinical reasoning.