the ordinary name by which SANTORIO SANTORIO, a distinguished Italian physician is known, was born at Capo d'Istria in 1561. Having taken his medical degree at Padua, he subsequently settled at Venice, where he practised his profession with the greatest success. His reputation having travelled back to Padua, he was in 1611 recalled from Venice, and appointed professor of the theory of medicine in his parent university. Sanctorius continued to lecture here for the next thirteen years, but having been frequently called to Venice on important medical business during that time, and feeling the fatigue of travelling gradually become more and more irksome, he was induced to resign his professorship, for which he continued however to receive the salary. Settling in Venice, he continued his medical practice till his death in 1636, in his seventy-fifth year. He was interred in the cloister of the Servites, where a marble statue marks his tomb.

The observations of Santorio on insensible perspiration rendered his name famous throughout Europe. He was a man of true genius, alike devoid of the pompous medical ignorance of his co-temporaries, and of the blind reverence for opinion peculiar to his century. He was author of six separate works, some of them of great value, particularly Methodus Vitandorum Errorum omnium qui in Arte Medici contingant, Libri xv., Ven. 1602; Commentarius in Artem Medicinalem Galeni, Venet. 1612; Ars de Statica Medicina, Venet. 1614. This work has been frequently translated. It has been done into Italian by Baglivi, Rome, 1704; by Cogrossi, Padua, 1724; by Chiari, Venice, 1720; into French by Le Breton, Paris, 1722; into German by Timmius, Bremen, 1736; and into English by J. D., London, 1696, and by Dr Quincy, London, 1712. Commentarius in Primam Fen primi libri canonis Avicennae, Venet. 1626; another Commentarius, of little value, and a Liber de Remediorum Inventione, Venet. 1629, which contains a curious account of some post mortem examinations. The life of Sanctorius was written in Latin by A. Capelli, Venice, 1750; and his whole works appeared at Venice in 1660, in 4 vols. 4to.