Berengario, Jacopo da Carpi (1470-1530).
De fractura cranii liber aureus. Hactenus desideratus. Ed. nova, ab innumeris mendis vindicata.
Lugundi Batavorum, Ex Officina Joannis Maire, 1651.
"Tractatus was written in little more than two months, soon after Berengario's return to Bologna, and dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici. It opens with a short discussion of various sorts of skull fractures, followed by a grouping of the consequent lesions according to their symptoms. This is the most interesting and valuable portion of the work, for Berengario was able to cite from contemporary knowledge or from his own direct observation the relationship between the location of the lesions and the resulting neurological effects. Next, he discusses prognosis, diagnosis, treatment , the instruments to be employed, and the technique of craniotomy. Berengario's book was the most original neurosurgical treatise until then and was not surpassed until the appearance of Ambroise Pare's similar work in 1562, in which Pare expressed his appreciation of his predecessor's efforts and made use of them" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography).
