Portrait of Umberto Carpi de Resmini

Umberto Carpi de Resmini (1881-1970) does not "economically" benefit the Ospedale Maggiore, but is a distinguished doctor. A student of the Ghislieri College, he graduated in medicine in Pavia; practicing at the Ospedale Maggiore, he won the Carlo Dall'Acqua prize in 1906 (a great doctor, in turn a benefactor of the hospital, the founder of his library and a teacher of the award that bears his name) and the prize of the encouraging association to intelligence for advanced studies abroad. In fact it increases its bacteriological and biochemical-immunological preparation in Berlin by Professor Julius Morgenroth. In 1908 he was the first assistant of Carlo Forlanini in Pavia, then assistant and instructor of medical propaedeutics. In the Great War he was recalled as a medical captain on duty at the front for the treatment of the wounded with severe intestinal injuries. In that period he also matures his great interest in tisiology and antituberculous prophylaxis. He has been a medical doctor since 1922 at the Hospital, Director of the Advanced School in Physiology and Respiratory Diseases, he perfects the artificial pneumothorax apparatus and studies the possibilities of the application of chemotherapy in the treatment of tuberculosis, considered by him to be a social disease and to be fought like such. Great teacher: in his "Manual of medical semeiotics" they have studied entire generations of doctors. In 1971, the widow Felicita sent this portrait of her husband as a gift to the Ca 'Granda, executed by her brother Aldo, together with the volumes of her library. The beautiful physiognomic and psychological rendering of the character was certainly facilitated by the intimate knowledge of the artist-family.