Luigi Luciani - bibliography
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Biography
Italian physiologist, born November 23, 1840, Ascoli Piceno; died June 23, 1919, Rome.
Bibliography
- Vom vergleichenden organischen Pastizismus.
Luciani’s first paper, presented to his teacher Giovanni Francheschi in 1864, when Luciani was a second year medical student. - Dell' attività della diastole cardiaca
[On the Activity of Cardiac Diastole]. Bologna, 1871-1874. - Eine periodische Function des isolirten Froschherzens.
[On the Periodic Function of the Isolated Frog Heart]
Berichte über die Verhandlungen der königlichen sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig; mathematisch-physische Klasse, 1873, 25: 11. - Delle oscillazioni della pressione intratoracica e intraaddominale.
Archivo per le scienze mediche, 1877. - Sulla patogenesi dell' epilessia.
Rivista sperimentale di freniatria e di medicina legale in relazione con l'antropologia e le scienze giurdiche e sociali, Reggio Emilia, 1878 (1879?): 4: 617-646. - Sui centri psicomotori corticali sui centri psicosensori corticali.
With Augusto Tamburini.
Rivista sperimentale di freniatria e di medicina legale in relazione con l'antropologia e le scienze giurdiche e sociali, Reggio Emilia, 1878-1879, 5: 1-76. - Le localizzazioni funzionali del cervello. With G. Seppilli. Napoli, 1885.
German translation by Moritz O. Fraenkel: - Die Functions-Localization auf der Grosshirnrinde. Leipzig, 1886.
- Fisiologia del digiuno : studi sull’uomo. Firenze, Sucessori Le Monnier, 1889.
German translation by Moritz O. Fraenkel: - Das Hunger: Studien und Experimente am Menschen. With an introduction by Jacob Moleschott. Hamburg : Leopold Voss, 1890. 230 pages.
Luciani distinguished three stages of starvation in man - hunger, physiological inanition, and pathological inanition. - Il cervelletto. Nuovi studi di fisiologia normale e patologica.
Firenze, Le Monnier, 1891.
German translation by Moritz O. Fraenkel: - Das Kleinhirn : neue Studien zur normalen und pathologischen Physiologie. Leipzig : Eduard Bosold (Arthur Georgi) 1893. 290 pages.
Luciani succeeded in keeping dogs alive after total extirpation of the cerebellum, and initiated the modern study of cerebellar function. - Fisiologia dell’uomo. 3 volumes. Milano, Società edit. libraria, 1901-1911.
5th edition in 5 volumes, 1919-1921, translated into German, English, and Spanish.
English translation by Francis Alice Welby, with a preface by John Newport Langley (1852-1925). Edited by Marie Camis, Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876-1965), and Marcus Seymour Pembrey (1868-1934): - Human Physiology. London : Macmillan and co., 1911-1921.
German edition by Silvestro Baglioni (1867-1957) and Hans Winterstein (1879-1963), with an introduction by Max Verworn (1862-1921): - Physiologie des Menschen. 4 volumes, Jena : Fischer, 1905-1914.
- Human Physiology: Circulation and Respiration.
Volume 1. London: Macmillan and Company, 1911:287–304. - Obituary of Luigi Luciani. The British Medical Journal, London, 1919, 2:400–401.
- Cenni autobiografici [Autobiographical notes].
Archivio di fisiologia, 1921: 19:319–349. Bibliography in Ergebnisse der Physiologie, 1920, 18: XIV. - B. Zanobio, G. Porta:
Luigi Luciani. In: Charles Coulston Gillispie, Editor in chief: Dictionary of Scientific Biographies, volume 8. Charles Scribner’s Sons. New York, 1973. Pages 535–536. - W. B. Youmans:
Luciani’s support of Cesalpius as discoverer of circulation of the blood.
Pharos. 1997, 60: 16–20.