Alessio Spalla, court surgeon of Christina of Sweden and his unknown Queen's autopsy report

Conclusions The unpublished report of the surgeon Spalla integrates the knowledge of the queen's illness and death, stands as an example of a private autopsy performed by a court surgeon in the late Seventeenth-century Rome and as a case study on the development of new hybrid areas of knowledge, such as practical anatomy.PMID:38693894 | DOI:10.1080/00015458.2024.2350112
Source: Acta Chirurgica Belgica - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research