GIOVANNI BATTISTA PALLETTA (1748-1832) «DOTTO CHIRURGO E PRATICO ECCELLENTE» A CAPO DELLA CHIRURGIA DELL’<em>OSPEDALE MAGGIORE</em>

Giovanni Battista Palletta, trained at the school of Bernardino Moscati, Pietro Moscati and Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla, was a highly appreciated surgeon of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan. Many of his clinical researches made him known in the international surgical community. There is no doubt that his vast experience, his ability, the successes achieved, the innovations introduced, his trait as a man of few words, justify the opinion of most of the historians of surgery who believe his reputation to be much higher than that of his own teachers.