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LUCIANI, Luigi (1840 – 1919)

LUCIANI, Luigi (1840 – 1919)

1840 – 1919

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1873 CE

#12261

Eine periodische Function des isolirten Froschherzen.

"Using an isolated frog heart preparation with ligatures around the atria, Luigi Luciani, an Italian physiologist working in 1873 in Carl Ludwig’s famous laboratory in Leipzig, was the first to demonstrate cardi…

1889 CE

#1013

Fisiologia del digiuni.

Luciani distinguished three stages of starvation in man – hunger, physiological inanition, and pathological inanition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1891 CE

#1421

Il cervelletto. Nuovi studi di fisiologia normale e patologica.

Luciani succeeded in keeping dogs alive after total extirpation of the cerebellum, and initiated the modern study of cerebellar function. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1901 CE–1911 CE

#652

Fisiologia dell’uomo. 4 vols.

5th edition (5 vols.), 1919-21; English translation (5 vols.), London, 1911-21. Luciani was professor of physiology successively at Siena, Florence, and Rome.