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Antonio Benivieni (1443-1502) was a Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy, a postmortum dissection of a deceased patient's body used to understand the cause of death. Benivieni published a treatise entitled ''De Abditis Morborum Causis'' ("The Hidden Causes of Disease") which is now considered one of the first works in the science of Pathology.^[1] Some of the protocols developed by Benivieni are similar to those used in autopsies to this day, and he has been referred to as the "father of pathologic anatomy."^[2]

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1. http://pacs.unica.it/biblio/lesson6.htm
2. http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/PTHL312abc/312a/01/Reader/reader_set.html