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Doc. 313.] 923
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
Angelica and Casanatensis. In Rome, through the kindness of
a resident German physician, Dr. Erhardt, he had, besides,
the assistance of one of the foremost Italian physicians who
had himself one of the largest surgical libraries in Italy. Yet
all in vain ; the anonymous treatise published in Rome in
1740 by Felix Rossetti could not be discovered anywhere.
One day while he was discussing the volume in question with
the Librarian in the Palazzo Corsini, this gentleman suggested
that Felix Rossetti was perhaps not the publisher, but the
writer of the book. Of this they very soon had a satisfactory
proof; for in the Corsini Library they found a little treatise
writen by Felice Roseti, and entitled : Memorie ragionate sulla
necessità che hanno i grandi Ospedali, Napoli, 1744 ; in which
was discussed the importance of large hospitals. Still, even
with this additional information, the editor could not discover
the book in question in any of the libraries in Rome. In
Naples, in the large Biblioteca Nazionale, formerly the Biblio
teca Borbonica, he found at last not the identical volume
which he was searching for, but another volume written by
the same Felix Rossetti on a kindred subject, called,.
Sistema Nuovo intorno all Anima pensante e alla Circolazione
degli Spiriti animali, del Signor Felice Rossetti, medico di
Giuvennazzo nella Puglia al Signor Cavalier Antonio Vallisnieri
(
A new system concerning the thinking soul and the circulation
of the animal spirits, by Felice Rossetti, physician at Giu
venazzo in Apulia, addressed to Signor Cavalier Antonio
Vallisnieri), Venezia, 1731. In this treatise the author contends
that the meninges are the seat of the thinking soul, and he
proves the circulation of the animal spirits from the nerves
through the membranes. If now Felix Rossetti treated in 1731
on "the circulation of the animal spirits through the nerves,
we are quite justified in assuming that the same Felix Rossetti
could have written in 1740 on "fevers and the nervous fluid,"
especially if in 1744 he wrote again on "the necessity of
having large hospitals. "
In addition to all this it must be remembered that Sweden
borg left Rome on February 15, 1739 (see Document 206,
p. 128), and that in May 1739 he arrived in Paris, (as appears
from Document 124, Vol. I, p. 362 ;) and from Paris he
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