Siena and its Province

Important places related to the history of medicine and other health-related subjects in Siena and its Province, Italy. These places can be seen also on this Google Map.

• Accademia dei Fisiocritici with related items:
  • Domenico Barduzzi's bas-relief
  • Paolo Mascagni's bust
  • Paolo Mascagni's cenotaph
  • Paolo Mascagni's portrait
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli's memorial tablet
  • Pirro Maria Gabbrielli's portrait
  • Sala "Francesco Valenti Serini"
  • Sala "Paolo Mascagni"

• Domenico Barduzzi's home

• Museo di Strumentaria Medica with
  • 18th century terracotta obstetrical models
  • Cuore e grossi vasi
  • Obstetric bed (c.1850)

• Museo Anatomico 'Leonetto Comparini' with
  • • Picker X-ray Generator

• old hospital of Santa Maria della Scala with:
  • Pellegrinaio Ward

• old Institute of Human Anatomy

• Old "Villaggio manicomiale di San Niccolò" with related items:
  • 5th Congress of 'Società Freniatrica Italiana' memorial tablet (1886)
  • 20th Congress of "Società Italiana di Psichiatria" memorial tablet (1933)
  • List of San Niccolò's Directors memorial tablet
  • Occupational therapy workshops' banners
  • Vincenzo Chiarugi's marble tablet

• Pietro Andrea Mattioli's birthplace

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Sinalunga

• old Hospital "Santa Maria delle Nevi" with Giuseppe Vivarelli's bust

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Bibliography

- Davide Orsini, "Retrieving the doctor-patient relationship in the “language of things” of a medical history museum, Medicina Historica, vol. 4, n. 3 (2020), pp. 1-9. Available here.
- Francesca Vannozzi, L'esercizio dell'arte sanitaria in Siena (secoli XVI-XXI), Nerbini, Firenze 2012, pp. 391.

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