Francesco Torti

In 1670 he and Bernardino Ramazzini headed the department of medicine in the newly created University of Modena.

He prescribed a dosage that continued for a period of eight days beyond the febrile stage of malaria.

As a physician, he was consulted by written correspondence by noblemen across Europe and a collection of 329 of his case studies were published into a two volume work in 2000.

[1][2] His major work was the Therapeutice Specialis ad Febres Quasdam Perniciosas (1712, online).

It was used mainly in folk medicine in Italy and appears even earlier in the writings of Florence Leonardo Bruni (1476).