Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia

Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia

Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia (1510 - 1580) Italian physician and anatomist, known as the Sicilian Hippocrates. He is also considered as one of the founders of osteology and legal medicine. He was particularly close to Vesalius, and he described in detail the sutures of the skull, and also the ethmoid and sphenoid bones. The lesser wings of the sphenoid are sometimes referred to as the processes of Ingrassia. He was also one of the first to describe the stapes, which he called the stapha, after its resemblance to the stirrups used commonly in Sicily. As a physician, he is remembered as the first to make a distinction between chicken pox and scarlet fever.