Bagli'vi

Bagli'vi, GIORGIO, an illustrious Italian physician, born at Ragusa in September 1669. He studied at Salerno, Padua, and Bologna, and in 1692 went to Rome. Here, through the influence of his friend Malpighi, he was appointed professor of Anatomy at the college of La Sapienza, where he died in 1707. His work, De Fibra Motrice, is the foundation of the theory of medicine known as 'solidism,' which refers all diseases to changes in the solid parts of the body, and which claims that solids alone possess vital properties and can be the seat of pathological phenomena.