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Santorio Santorio ( Latinized Sanctorius; * March 29, 1561 Koper, Istria, † February 22, 1636 in Venice) was of Italian doctors who carried out the first systematic metabolic research. He was also one of the first physicians that have been shown hired self-experiments.

Santorio was also the first person who used precision instruments in medicine, in order to perform quantitative experiments can. In 1602, he led the pendulum to measure the pulse rate in the medicine a. For this he was probably inspired by his discussions with Galileo Galilei. Was best known for his medical services a metabolic balance (see illustration) to the study of metabolism, which he used for himself and also for Galileo. He also published a description of a new type of thermometer that could have been also inspired by Galileo.

Santorio was from 1611 to 1624 professor of theoretical medicine at Padua and then in Venice.

He is considered one of the founders of the Iatrophysik ( Iatromechanik ).

Works (selection)

• Methodius vitandorum of Errors omnium, qui in arte medica contingunt libri XV, quorum principia sunt from auctoritate medicorum, & philosophorum principum desumpta, eaque omnia experimentis, & rationibus analyticis comprobata in the Google Book Search. Apud Petrum Aubertum, Venice 1630 ( 1st edition: 1603).
• Ars de medicina statica in the Google Book Search. David Lopes de Haro, Leiden 1642 ( 1st edition: 1612 ). De medicina et de statica responsione ad staticomasticem ars aphorismorum sectionibus octo Comprehensa on Gallica. Antoine Cellier, Lyon year 1690.