Fara G M, Del Vecchio R, Montacutelli R
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Ann Ig. 2017 Sep-Oct;29(5):397-402. doi: 10.7416/ai.2017.2171.
This paper illustrates in detail the birth of the Museum of Public Health of the Sapienza University of Rome, which has been one of the most successful achievements of Prof Carmine Melino in the last few years of his academic career. Backed by a very thin group of enthousiastic coworkers and colleagues, he recuperated all the instruments which had been used by the research groups active since 1880 at the former Institute of Hygiene, to which he added samples of the different pieces of laboratory furniture, ancient reagents, etc. The goal was not to simply collect, restore and maintain the documents of the Institute's past, but to rebuild a vintage laboratory, as it was inhabited by the hygienists of the past and to describe the kinds of research being performed during a period more than a century long. Beginning from the days when Hygiene became a scientific discipline, he tried to demonstrate that only the transformation of Hygiene into an experimental discipline made it possible the numberless achievements, including the improvements of the environmental conditions, the reduction of infectious diseases and the successful fight against the chronic, degenerative diseases of the present times.
本文详细阐述了罗马第一大学公共卫生博物馆的诞生，这是卡尔米内·梅利诺教授在其学术生涯的最后几年中最成功的成就之一。在一小群热情的同事和工作人员的支持下，他找回了自1880年以来在前卫生研究所活跃的研究小组所使用的所有仪器，并增添了不同的实验室家具样本、古老的试剂等。其目的并非仅仅是收集、修复和保存该研究所过去的文件，而是重建一个复古实验室，就像过去卫生学家们使用的那样，并描述一个多世纪以来所进行的各类研究。从卫生学成为一门科学学科的时代开始，他试图证明，只有将卫生学转变为一门实验学科，才有可能取得无数成就，包括改善环境条件、减少传染病以及成功对抗当今的慢性退行性疾病。
