Post mortem body donation and notes on the history of dissection

Abstract

The author provides a very short history of the learning of medical and surgical knowledge, stressing the importance of studies on man undertaken by the Egyptians, of the Viennese school at the end of the 1800s, and looking at how things are today. The role of anatomical pathology is emphasised along with its importance in the contemporary age thanks to microsurgery, degenerative diseases of the CNS, the Corona Virus pandemic etc. The Project for Body Donation, recently approved by the Italian parliament, is also illustrated.