L'OCCHIO CLINICO (2006)

The Ospedale Maggiore in Milan was founded in 1456 by Francesco Sforza, incorporating many existing institutions in the city and its territory since the ninth century. It is based in the magnificent building designed by Filarete, also working in other addictions, in order then to identify themselves in the halls of the hospital. For pulse Luigi Mangiagalli, in order to combine research, teaching and hospital care, in 1906 the institute was inaugurated Obstetric Gynecologic that now bears his name. And beside it rosed the occupational medicine Clinic "Luigi Devoto" and the Paediatric Institute "De Marchi". In 1909 Mangiagalli designed and created even the “Regina Elena” asylum for new and expectant mothers. Since 2005, the realities are combined into a Foundation, Institute for Hospitalization and Care Scientific: the Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena. The volume presents a selection of images from the photographic collections of the institution, full of about 28,000 phototypes, which are preserved precious photographs dating from the mid-nineteenth century and the nineteen seventies aimed at documenting the architectural appearance of the hospital, from nineteenth-century views of the Ca’ Granda and Lazzaretto, followed by the pavilions of the Hospital and hospitals emerged in the twentieth century and faces the benefactors who contributed to its development. The hospital life is described both in their health and medical care, either at official ceremonies and institutions such as religious.

Paolo M. Galimberti, Daniela Scala (ed.),
L’occhio clinico. Milano nelle fotografie storiche dell’Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena,
Milano, Ospedale Maggiore - Skira, 2006, 131 p., ill., 28 cm

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