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Alea III Debut Concert--Works of Castiglioni, Antoniou, Schuller, Berio, Lutoslawski, Foss and Varese; B.U. School for the Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
Last week Dr. Castiglioni's History of Medicine, originally published in Italy in 1927, was republished in a new translation in English by Professor Edward Bell Krumbhaar of the University of Pennsylvania, who incidentally toned down some of the claims made for Italian doctors (Knopf, $8.50). Dr. Castiglioni's book is remarkable for his account of medical philosophies, his love for the art and literature of medicine, his flashes of Roman fire. The book is crammed with pictures from Chinese, Arabian and Egyptian texts, including many ingenious forms of primitive therapy (see cut). It records medical progress...
Professor Arturo Castiglioni, 66, of the University of Padua in Italy, is a refugee teaching at Yale. The son of a rabbi, he was born in Trieste, brought up an Austrian. After World War I, when Italy acquired Trieste, Dr. Castiglioni became an ardent Italian. But he never joined the Fascist Party, and, despite his tremendous popularity at Padua, was forced out by anti-Semitic laws...
...great showman, Galen often performed experiments on animals in public theatres. He wrote over 400 books. Because of his enormous practice, he was hated by other Roman doctors. Galen believed that the body was a perfect machine, dominated by the soul, set in motion by God. "Galen," said Dr. Castiglioni, "knows everything, has an answer for everything; he confidently pictures the origin of all diseases and outlines their cure." He perpetuated "fundamental errors," and "produced a long arrest in medical evolution." Yet he "recognized seven of the twelve pairs of cerebral nerves . . . and knew most of the gross structures...
...Castiglioni crash was not unexpected, either by the public or by Castiglioni who, as his name indicates, is an Italian, and who, when the crash came, had taken care to be in Italy, where (so it was rumored) he had kept himself popular by supporting the Fascisti...