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PROF. LUIGI LUCIANI, the celebrated Italian physiologist, was born at Ascoli Piceno on November 23, 1840. He received his medical education at Bologna and Naples, and qualified at Bologna in 1868. After acting as assistant to Vella in the Institute of Physiology at Bologna he spent nearly two years in the corresponding institute at Leipzig under Ludwig. On his return to Bologna he became lecturer in experimental pathology and also devoted himself to the study of the physiology of respiration. In 1875 he was appointed professor of physiology at Parma, where he remained for five years. In 1880 he succeeded Giannozzi in the corresponding chair at Sienna, and shortly afterwards became professor of comparative physiology at Florence, where he remained from 1880 until 1892. During this period his most important work, namely, that on the cerebellum and fasting, was carried out. Finally, he occupied the chair of physiology at Rome, which he held until his retirement in 1917. His original work consisted mainly of his studies on the physiology of the cardiovascular system, the cerebral cortex and cerebellum muscular movements and fasting, the last being carried out on Succi, the professional fasting man. He was also interested in phonetics, psychology, and the history of medicine. His most important publications were those on the functional localization of the cerebellum (1885), the physiology of fasting (1889), and human physiology (1898–1903), the latter having been translated into English, German and Spanish. He died on June 23, 1919.
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Luigi Luciani. Nature 146, 681–682 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146681d0
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