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<\/p>\nMarcello Comel was born in 1902 in Trieste from a Friulian family.<\/p>\n
He studied medicine at the Universities of Genova, Pisa and Turin with an attention to the Institutes of Physiology and Patology. In 1926 he graduated at the University of Turin, with a thesis worthy of publication and which awarded the Vitaleni prize in 1926.<\/p>\n
In 1929 he became Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, where his first course in Skin Physiology addressed to Dermatology postgraduated (the lessons are collected in the \u201cGiornale Italiano di Dermatologia\u201d).<\/p>\n
In 1938, after 133 scientific papers, he had a Chair in Clinical Dermosyphilopathy at the University of Modena.<\/p>\n
In December 1946, after some ordeals due to the War period, he was called to lead the small Clinic of Pisa, where he adapted the equipment, renovated services, expanded – and introduced new ones \u2013 departments for the biophysical, biochemical and physiochemical researches.<\/p>\n
Thereafter he established in Pisa the first Italian Burn Center. During this period his Clinic was committed to combating the venereal disease originated from the Tombolo pine forest area.<\/p>\n
The early Comel School has been enriched with a Library named after Santorio Santorio, the XVI Century physician as well-known as Galileo Galilei in medicine field (they were colleagues indeed). In the footsteps of Hippocrates, he teached the physical and organic human unity, the Medical Humanism.<\/p>\n
In 1943 Comel drew up the constitution of the Institutum Santorianum de Humanitate Medica establishing a link with Santorio, continuing to promote the Medical Humanism in the name of the Experimental Medicine initiator, Santorio Santorio da Capodistria.<\/p>\n
In 1950 Marcello Comel teached a course in Functional Dermatology in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n
On the 27th March 1995 at the age of 93 he passed away leaving his notes for a new book about the man and the environment.<\/p>\n
From 1951 to 1989 Marcello Comel wrote 282 among papers, conference speeches and books about the issues he studied and which he dedicated his whole life to.<\/p>\n
In 1992 Comel started the \u201cInstitutio Santoriana Fondazione Comel\u201d with its headquarter in Milano, Via F.lli Maggiolini 1. His purpose was to continue the scientific and humanistic disclosure work achieved during his own life.<\/p>\n
After Professor Marcello Comel death and synergically with other initiatives, the Foundation resumed from 1996 the publishing activity of the periodical \u201cAnthologica Medica Santoriana\u201d which Comel founded as far back as 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The founder, Professor Marcello Comel Marcello Comel was born in 1902 in Trieste from a Friulian family. He studied medicine at the Universities of Genova, Pisa and Turin with an attention to the Institutes of Physiology and Patology. In 1926 he graduated at the University of Turin, with a thesis worthy of publication and which awarded the Vitaleni prize in 1926. In 1929 he became Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, where his first course in Skin Physiology addressed to Dermatology postgraduated (the lessons are collected in the \u201cGiornale Italiano di Dermatologia\u201d). In 1938, after 133 scientific papers, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7408,"parent":6027,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n