Giuseppe Antonio Pujati

Giuseppe Antonio Pujati (28 May 1701, Sacile – 12 June 1760, Padua) was an Italian physician.

Giuseppe Antonio Pujati was born in Sacile, a town in Friuli, to a merchant family. He completed early studies under the Jesuits in Venice, and in 1719, graduated with a medical degree from the University of Padua. In Padua, he was to encounter the physicians Bernardino Ramazzini, Antonio Vallisneri, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, and Alessandro Knips Macoppe, who each was adding to the modern understanding of medicine and anatomy. After practicing in Venice, in 1726 he left for the island of Korčula. He began to publish on medical practice.^[1] In 1737, after publishing the Decas variarum medicarum observationum, which was well-received by the medical community, he obtained the position of chief physician in Feltre, where he remained for 12 years. His fame as a physician and his scientific prestige grew over the years. In 1754 the Venetian Senate appointed him to the chair of Practical Medicine at the University of Padua, a position he held until his death. His most important work, De victu febricitantium dissertatio, brought him European fame.