Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo was an Italian physician, born in Livorno in 1666 to a French pharmacist, who is known for showing that the itch mite causes scabies. He studied at Pisa, took his doctorate in philosophy and medicine in 1681 and was licensed to practise in Florence in 1683, with Francesco Redi as his main advocate. He served as a ship doctor on a naval expedition against the Turks in 1684 and 1685. With the pharmacist Giacinto Cestoni, who had the technical skill with the microscope, he observed and drew the mites taken from the skin of patients. Because he contradicted accepted medical opinion he was harshly criticised and struggled to find work, and he finally became personal physician to the Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici. He died in 1696.
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Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo (30 November 1666-13 January 1696) was an Italian physician, known for discovering the itch mite as the cause of the skin disease scabies.
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He described and drew them after observing their presence with the aid of a microscope in the fluid expressed from lesions of infected patients.
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