Santorio Sanctorius (1561–1636) – Founding Father of Metabolic Balance Studies

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  title={Santorio Sanctorius (1561–1636) – Founding Father of Metabolic Balance Studies},
  author={Garabed Eknoyan},
  journal={American Journal of Nephrology},
  year={1999},
  volume={19},
  pages={226 - 233},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:32900603}
}
Santorio Sanctorius (1561– 1636), whose principal contributions were his studies on insensible perspiration and his instrumental inventions, clearly deserves the title of founding father of metabolic balance studies.
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