Born in the

Born in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, was the son of Achilles and Catherine Ayen Pirovano. While his grandfather and great grandfather had practiced medicine in Europe, his father was an Italian goldsmith who had emigrated to Argentina but had failed to develop economically. Pirovano had to work to finance their studies, working in a pharmacy as a pharmacist at the Hospital General de Hombres and became a practitioner of Dr. Francisco Muniz in the war against Paraguay in 1865 and during epidemics of cholera in 1867 and FMD yellow in 1871. Pirovano completed his secondary education at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, and in 1866 entered the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. He had already qualified as a pharmacist when in 1872 he graduated as a doctor, surprising his thesis herniotomy on the removal of hernias, which showed an advance in relation to the methods of the time.He received a scholarship from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires that allowed perfected in France. He attended the classes of Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur, attended the treatment sessions N laton Auguste and Jules Pean and became acquainted with Joseph Lister, who would give you the basics antiseptics that later developed into the country and improve the surgery in Argentina. After three years of studies, he returned to Buenos Aires graduated as Doctor of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Dr. Ignacio Pirovano his return he was appointed Research Chair Histology and Pathology, University of Buenos Aires. They set up a laboratory and developed the systematic use of the microscope that did not exist until their arrival at the institution. In 1879 he held the chair of operative surgery and in 1882 the Surgical Clinic, after the death of Manuel Augusto Montes de Oca.Lister's antiseptic method, based on the operative field spray carbolic acid had been introduced to the country by Manuel Montes de Oca, but was Pirovano who perfected its use and spread to the hospital setting. He practiced surgery especially head, neck and limbs, and his fame was to centralize most of the operations of Buenos Aires and to the rest of the country. Withdraw from the activity due to cancer of the tongue base, and perish on 2 July 1895, at fifty years. Currently, a hospital in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires Coghlan bears his name, the same general acute care hospital "Dr. I. Pirovano.