Santorio de Padua: the doctor who measured the invisible

In the official history of Western medicine, there are many names that changed the course of things with a visible finding: an organ, an injury, a function. However, there are characters whose contribution was not to discover something new in the body, but to inaugurate a new way of looking at it, measuring it and knowing it. Santorio Santorio (Sanctorius Sanctorius in Latin), a 17th century Venetian physician, did not inaugurate a specialty or …