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Ruggero Oddi: Brilliant physician and victim of gaslighting by the Congo Free State

March 29, 2023

Eli Ehrenpreis Skokie, Illinois, United States   Ruggero Oddi in 1900 during his post as acting director of the Physiological Institute of Genoa. Referenced in Alexander Rollett Letter Edition, L.2629.  When Ruggero Oddi (1864–1913) was a medical student at the University of Bologna, he performed studies detailing the physiology of the biliary sphincter. This work […]