Augusto Murri was an Italian physician. Appointed to the Chair of Clinical Medicine at Bologna in 1875 he was regarded as one of the most illustrious clinical doctors and innovators of his times (in Pathological Anatomy

Anatomy

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, Histology

Histology

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, Microbiology

Microbiology

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 and Experimental Physiopathology).

Became also the Rector of the Alma Mater Studiorum, and later a member of the Italian Parliament (1891).