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THOUGH the memory of Bizzozero, the centenary of whose birth falls on March 20, is eponymously honoured in 'Bizzozero's corpuscles', it may be said without undue straining of the phrase that his signature is writ large upon many a page in the annals of physiology and pathology. Virchow's ablest pupil, Bizzozero at the age of twenty-seven became professor of general pathology at Turin, where he proved himself an attractive lecturer, lucid both in thought and expression. Among the first to study the histology of experimental tuberculosis and to observe cell inclusions-pioneer work anticipating the conception of phagocytosis-he was an early student of the hsemopoietic function of bone-marrow, and in 1882 named the blood-platelets (first noticed by Donne in 1842 and more fully described by Osier in 1873), recognizing their participation in blood coagulation. His “Manual of Clinical Microscopy” (1885) went through several editions and translations. Forced by choroiditis to abandon microscopic work, Bizzozero enthusiastically plunged into sanitary reform. Tall, delicately built, with fine features, he was a victim of chronic neuralgia, which however failed to ruffle his serenity and to curb his mania for work. He died of pneumonia on April 8, 1901. Among his distinguished disciples, Golgi, Bassini and Foa have found international fame.
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Giulio Bizzozero (1846–1901). Nature 157, 331–332 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157331d0
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