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List of works by Michele Augusto Riva

"Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi: A Case of Delirium in an Italian Romantic Opera

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

"Puttin' on the Ritz": Young Frankenstein and neurology

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

"The giant Hans Kraus" (1553): a Renaissance acromegaly by anonymous painter

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

'Il Sonnambulo' by Michele Carafa: A Forgotten Romantic Opera with Sleepwalking

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A bone in the heart: the strange case of Pope Urban VIII

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

A modern perspective on Pope Innocent X's tremor

scientific article published in December 2016

A pioneering patient lift: prevention of low back pain in health care workers in the 18th century

scientific article published in January 2015

Advertising: Giacomo Puccini in dental history

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

An aortic calcification in a seventeenth-century autopsy report: The case of Cardinal Camillo Melzi

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Anti-HBs evaluation and booster dose in vaccinated healthcare students

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Arsenic eaters and altitude sickness: an epigenetic strategy for improving fitness in a hostile environment?

scientific article published on 10 August 2010

At the origin of "Endocrinology and Art": Woman's Head (third century BCE)

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

At the origin of medical semeiotics: Charles J. B. Williams and tactile vocal fremitus

scientific article published on 02 March 2017

Benzene and leukemia: from scientific evidence to regulations. A historical example

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714).

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714): an often forgotten pioneer in maritime health

scientific article published in January 2014

Bernardino Ramazzini in the fourth industrial revolution

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Beyond Laennec: Aurelio Bianchi and the phonendoscope

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Burden of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

Celsus and scalp diseases: zoological terminology.

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Cesare Vigna (1819-1892).

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City Lights: corneal diseases in Hollywood movies

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Dante and Musculoskeletal Diseases: Anatomy and Pathophysiology of Orthopedic and Spinal Disorders in the Middle Ages

scientific article published in September 2015

Dante and asthenopia: a modern visual problem described during the Middle Ages.

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Dante and cardiology: Physiopathology and clinical features of cardiovascular diseases in the Middle Ages

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Dante and dermatological diseases: a literary description of scabies in the Middle Ages

scientific article published on 29 August 2014

Durán Madonna (c. 1435-1438) by Rogier van der Weyden: a case of congenital goiter

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Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Epidemic Diseases of Childhood

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Endocrinology and art. A goiter at the court of Theodolinda, queen of the Lombards: a fifteenth-century painting

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Erysipelas over the centuries: notes from the history of popes

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

Facial Cleft in a Mayan Figurine

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

From milk to rifampicin and back again: history of failures and successes in the treatment for tuberculosis.

scientific article published on 06 August 2014

From sadness to stiffness: the spleen's progress

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Gaetano Rummo (1853-1917)

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 17th century white noise machine.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Giovanni Rajberti (1805-1861): An uncompromising physician and poet

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Giuseppe Ferrario and the epidemiology of apoplexy during the 19th century

scientific article published in September 2012

Histochemistry: historical development and current use in pathology.

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Iginio Tansini (1855-1943): An Italian surgeon and an innovator between the 19th and the 20th centuries

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Interrupted Meal, by Heinrich von Rustige

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Is Adam of Cremona's 13th century paper "De regimine et via itineris" the first travel medicine guide?

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

Italian midwives and influenza vaccination: problems in adherence and perception

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Johann Peter Frank (1745-1821) and the Pathogenesis of Back Pain

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Judging the Past: How History Should Inform Bioethics

scientific article published on 01 November 2016

Lead poisoning: historical aspects of a paradigmatic "occupational and environmental disease".

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Letter to the editor: more ghosts more business

scientific article published in October 2014

Medicus curat: sungazing versus spectacles?

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Neurological implications and neuropsychological considerations on folk music and dance.

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Neurosciences in the ninth art

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

No renaissance for doctors in Shakespeare's plays

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

Nonconvulsive electrotherapy in psychiatry: The treatment of the mental disorders of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch

scientific article published in March 2017

Occupational Risks in Midwifery: From Bernardino Ramazzini to Modern Times

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Occupational health in fairy tales.

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Occupational medicine and occupational psychology: a rendezvous in Milan after World War II

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Omar Sharif, Doctor Zhivago and Hollywood interpretation of AMI.

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Oscar-nominated movies and the epidemiology of tuberculosis in the past 90 years

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Our Lady of Tumours.

scientific article published in February 2017

Pandemic fear and literature: observations from Jack London's The Scarlet Plague.

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Physicians and alternative medicines in "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini: A bicentennial debate

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Pier Diego Siccardi (1880-1917) and the "Clinica del Lavoro" in the trench warfare.

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Pope Francis and the Italian scientific golden age.

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Pope Innocent XI's renal stones: an example of medical correspondence.

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Positive signs of functional weakness.

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Primary Health Care and Occupational Health. Results from a survey on general practitioners of the Province of Monza and Brianza

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Pulcinella's secret. Further hypotheses on the etiology of the double hump in an Italian 16th-century mask

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Pulmonary tuberculosis in Pope Clement XI

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Risk behaviors among Italian healthcare students: a cross-sectional study for health promotion of future healthcare workers

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Rodolfo Margaria and the First Walk on the Moon

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Scabies Outbreak in the 14th Century: Clues from Correspondence Between Poets.

scientific article published on 8 June 2016

Sleepwalking in Italian operas: a window on popular and scientific knowledge on sleep disorders in the 19th century

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Social status and cardiovascular disease: a Mediterranean case. Results from the Italian Progetto CUORE cohort study.

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Somnambulism in Verdi's Macbeth and Bellini's La Sonnambula: opera, sleepwalking, and medicine.

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Spinal Deformities in Romantic Operas

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

The "Chauffeur Fracture": Historical Origins of an Often-Forgotten Eponym

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

The "thirsty dropsy": Early descriptions in medical and non-medical authors of thirst as symptom of chronic heart failure

scientific article published on 3 August 2017

The Death of Balzac (1799-1850) and the Treatment of Heart Failure During the Nineteenth Century.

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

The Disease of the Italian Poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837): A Case of Juvenile Ankylosing Spondylitis in the 19th Century?

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The Neurologist in Dante's Inferno

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The Suicide of Saul by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

scientific article published in May 2017

The birth of modern industrial hygiene and occupational toxicology. A historical reconstruction through the analysis of the contributions of three protagonists

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

The charity and the care: the origin and the evolution of hospitals

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The contribution of intellectuals to the history of traumatology during the Renaissance: treatment of femoral fracture through François Rabelais' glossocomion

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

The contribution of the Clinica del Lavoro of Milan to the development of industrial hygiene and toxicology in the twentieth century

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

The death of Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème: not an ordinary tubercular heroine

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

The death of Raphael: a reflection on bloodletting in the Renaissance

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

The disease of the moon: the linguistic and pathological evolution of the English term "lunatic".

scientific article published on January 2011

The erythema of Alexander the Great: a cutaneous disease correlated to alcohol intake?

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

The first recorded use of microscopy in medicine: Pope Innocent XII's autopsy report.

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The first steps of industrial hygiene and occupational toxicology at the Clinica del Lavoro di Milano under the guidance of Luigi Devoto

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

The gigantic tooth of St. Christopher

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

The hand pronation phenomenon: a franco-german tale

scientific article published in September 2011

The heroic microbe

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

The representation of a goiter by Renaissance painter Moretto da Brescia

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

The severe headaches of Cardinal Richelieu

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Treatment of hip fracture of Pope Innocent XII by Marcello Malpighi with bed rest.

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

What is the origin of the Italian term "medico competente"?

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Workers' health conditions in the Greco-Roman world: the contribution of non-medical sources

scientific article published in January 2011

“The city of Hepar”: Rituals, gastronomy, and politics at the origins of the modern names for the liver ⬇️

scientific article published on June 28, 2011

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