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LOMBROSO, Cesare (1836 – 1909)

LOMBROSO, Cesare (1836 – 1909)

1836 – 1909

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1869 CE

#3754

Studii clinici ed esperimentali sulla natura, causa e terapia della pellagra.

Lombroso upheld the maize theory of the origin of pellagra. He believed that the symptoms were caused by a toxin which developed in deteriorated maize. Reprinted from Riv. clin. Bologna, 1869, 8, 289-314, 321-44.

1876 CE

#174

L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.

Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the…