Michele Medici

Michele Medici (8 May 1782 – 4 May 1859) was an Italian anatomist, physiologist and an early writer on medical history including that of the Bologna school of medicine.

Medici was born in Bologna to master silk weaver Girolamo and his wife Antonia Rossi.

In 1815 he was invited to the newly created chair of physiology at the University of Bologna which had been separated from comparative anatomy by the papal government.

He supported the ideas of excitability, stimuli and counterstimuli that had been proposed by others in the period He also attempted a physiological classification of diseases.

[2] Apart from medicine, Medici wrote on botanical and entomological topics in the agricultural society.