Fallot, Étienne-Louis Arthur (1850–1911) (original) (raw)

History of Life Gabriele Fallopio was born in Modena, an ancient town in Emilia Romagna in 1523 (Fig. 1). His exact birth date is uncertain. Fallopio's family had noble origins and his father, Geronimo Fallopio, worked as a goldsmith and later as a soldier. Geronimo died when Fallopio was 10 years old and the family faced financial troubles. By 1542, Gabriele Fallopio had to stop his education and became a priest in the Episcopal Church of Modena, inheriting the canonary of his uncle to relieve the financial difficulties of his family. Fallopio did not practice his priesthood and, after some years, he renounced his state as a priest. Fallopio began studying medicine in Modena under Niccolo Machella. Machella allowed Fallopio to perform his first dissection on a 21year-old female criminal. Fallopio also practiced surgery for some time, but due to fatal outcomes, he abandoned the practice and decided to study medicine. He only resumed surgical practice after being appointed as Chair of Anatomy and Surgery in Padua some years later. Around 1544, Fallopio moved to Ferrara, where he studied under Antonio Musa Brasavola (1500-1555), a famous physician who performed the first successful tracheotomy, and under Giambattista Canano (1515-1579). Subsequently, Fallopio left Ferrara and continued his education in the University of Pisa. Here he became later a lecturer and professor of anatomy. Fallopio also studied in Padua under the supervision of Giovanni Battista de Monte