Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGiovanni Cosimo Bonomo
Italian physician
Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1666
Place of Birth: Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Death: 13-Jan-1696
Profession: physician
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo
- Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo (30 November 1666 – 13 January 1696) was an Italian physician, known for discovering the itch mite as the cause of the skin disease scabies.
- He described and drew them after observing their presence with the aid of a microscope in the fluid expressed from lesions of infested patients.
- By contradicting contemporary medical opinion and the papal aristocracy, he was harshly criticized and had a hard time finding a job.
- Eventually he became a personal physician of the German Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici.
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