Carlo Forlanini

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Carlo Forlanini (11 June 1847 – 25 May 1918) was a medical doctor and professor at the Universities of Turin and Pavia. He was also the inventor of artificial pneumothorax, which was the primary treatment method of pulmonary tuberculosis for the first half of the 20th century and remained in use for severe cases of tuberculosis into the 1970s. Carlo Forlanini was born in Milan on 11 June 1847, the eldest of four brothers and one sister. His father, Giuseppe Forlanini, was a physician belonging to a bourgeosie family of Milan. His mother, Marianna Rossi, died of pulmonary phthisis. Forlanini attended secondary school in Como, received his pre-doctoral education at Calchi Taeggi in Milan, then attended the Borromeo College at the University of Pavia. He interrupted his medical studies in 1866 to serve under Garibaldi as part of Garibaldi's unification of Italy. Forlanini participated in the Battle of Monte Suello and the Bezzecca. After his return to Pavia he published his first scientific work in 1868 and became friends with Giulio Bizzozero and Camillo Golgi while studying under Paolo Mantegazza at the Mantegazza institute and ophthalmologist Antonio Quaglino. On 9 August 1870 he graduated from the University of Padua.