Ongaro G
Centro per la Storia dell'Università di Padova, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia.
Med Secoli. 1994;6(3):495-514.
Brown's thought represented one of the most successful medical systems which arose in the XVIIIth century, as a consequence of vitalism and as a reaction to the inadequacy of Hippocratic-Galenic medicine. Giovanni Rasori was a strong supporter of Brown's theories in Italy and creator of the scientific movement which was, then, called Rasorism. A fundamental point of Rasori's therapeutic thought was represented by the dynamic action of drugs, so that a pharmacological experimentation became necessary, for medical practice. Siro Borda, who was a follower and personal friend of Rasori, made experiments on 150 substances to identify their dynamic action and, finally, he classified them in three groups: stimolanti, controstimolanti, eterocliti. This last class comprehended all the pharmacological substances of uncertain or not yet determined nature.
布朗的思想代表了18世纪兴起的最成功的医学体系之一，它是活力论的产物，也是对希波克拉底 - 盖伦医学不足的一种反应。乔瓦尼·拉索里是布朗理论在意大利的坚定支持者，也是当时被称为拉索里主义的科学运动的创立者。拉索里治疗思想的一个基本要点是药物的动态作用，因此，为了医疗实践，进行药理学实验变得必要。西罗·博尔达是拉索里的追随者和私人朋友，他对150种物质进行了实验，以确定它们的动态作用，最后，他将它们分为三类：兴奋剂、抗兴奋剂、特质药。最后一类包括所有性质不确定或尚未确定的药理物质。
