Mistichelli's crossing
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Pyramidal decussation. In 1709 Mistichelli produced the first diagram of the crossing of the pyramidal tracts. A year later François Pourfour du Petit (1664-1741) reported that unilateral hemiplegias in humans resulted from damage to the contralateral cerebral hemisphere.
We thank Andreas Schoeck for calling our attention to this eponym.
Bibliography
- F. Pourfour du Petit:
Trois lettres d'un médecin des hôpitaux du Roy . . . contient un nouveau système du cerveau, etc.
Namur, C. G. Albert, 1710. Theory of contralateral innervation.
- S. Finger:
Origins of Neuroscience. New York, Oxford University Press, 1994.
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