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Giuseppe Grassi Giuseppe Grassi, was born in Bronte in 1913 and died in Rome in 1980. He began his studies at the Real Collegio Capizzi and, after completing his studies, he soon became a teacher, an internationally renowned surgeon and a scientist. Master of the surgical art in 1977 he was elected president of the Medical School of Rome where he also worked at the San Giovanni Hospital. He was the founder of the "Collegium Internationale Chirurgiae Digestivae" and of the scientific journal entitled "Gastroenterological Surgery". «His attitude towards Gastroenterology in general - wrote one of his students, prof. Marino Luminari - was substantially the result of a great interest in digestive pathology, a field that kept him engaged in a diligent search for in-depth study and improvement of some operating techniques, particularly those for the therapy of peptic ulcer, which he predicted in terms of conservative treatment, the same that will later find its definitive validation with antisecretory and antimicrobial drugs." Another of his colleagues - prof. Prof. Antonio Dauri who replaced him after his death in the presidency of the hospital medical school - recalling the figure of his predecessor called him "good man, generous, honest but above all young" uncontaminated ", enchanted optimist who addressed the problem of teaching with violence , intemperance, the joy of the passion never extinguished that for him had become a mission ». Giuseppe Grassi died in Rome at the age of 67 in 1980. In July 1982, the Municipality of Bronte conferred on him the XXIV Casali Award for Surgery. A street in Bronte was named after him. [Above: a commemorative inscription dedicated to the surgeon Giuseppe Grassi. The plaque is placed in a corridor of the Real Collegio Capizzi] Giuseppe Grassi in the memory of one of his students (only in italian language) | |||||||||||||
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