Edoardo Perroncito, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edoardo Perroncito

Italian parasitologist

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1847

Place of Birth: Viale, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 04-Nov-1936

Profession: physician, veterinarian, botanist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Edoardo Bellarmino Perroncito (10 March 1847, Viale in the Province of Asti – 4 November 1936) was an Italian parasitologist.
He was the father of pathologist Aldo Perroncito (1882–1929). He earned his degree in veterinary medicine, and in 1879 he became a professor of parasitology to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Turin.Remembered for his extensive research of Ancylostoma duodenale (hookworm), in 1880 he determined that hookworm was the cause of anemia being suffered by workmen building the St.
Gotthard railway tunnel.
He was the first to recommend using an extract of the male fern as a remedy for the disease.