Italian medical poster for Syrup Pagliano. Girolamo Pagliano ( Genoa , 1801 - Florence , 9 September 1881 ) was a chemist , pharmacist and theater manager Italian , inventor of the syrup purgative that bore his name, syrup Pagliano, centerbe long life. Pagliano had some luck, since 1838 , selling a syrup purgative beneficial properties.