Tommaso Rima

He studied varicose veins and innovated a ligation technique to manage it, making him a pioneer of vascular surgery.

He was promoted to surgeon major of the Italian army in 1803 and was involved in organization building, and teaching.

In 1806 he became a chief surgeon at Milan, succeeding Paolo Assalini at the military hospital of San Ambrogio.

In 1814 he became a medical officer in the Austrian army and after leaving in 1820 he took up research, working as a surgeon at the Ravenna hospital and later at Venice.

Rima had two daughters from a marriage sometime after 1807 but after his wife's death in 1812, he married Marquise Teresa née Lalatta of Parma, widow of a Bergamo landowner.