La circulation cérébrale chez l'homme à l'état normal et sous l'influence des substances hypnogènes.

Rummo, Gaetano 1853–1917 ;
Ferrannini, Andrea, 1864–1939

Napoli : Tipografia Angelo Trani , 1888.

Description : [1 l.] frontis. pl., [3 l.] p., [1]-69 p., [16 l.] pl. ; ill.: 2 phots., 17 in-text figs., 16 liths. ; 32 cm.

Photographs : composite collotype printed on leaf, two oval head shots of clinical subjects.

Photographer : Fototipia Biondi–Napoli [in the negative].

Subject : Cerebral vessels — Physiology ; pathology.

Notes :

• Title text: Laboratorio della Clinica Medica di Napoli diretto dal Prof. Cantani /
• Sezione di patologia, farmacologia, e terapia sperimentale affidata al Prof. G. Rummo.
• Dedication page to Marey and Mosso.
• Author caption: Pel Professore Gaetano Rummo/
• Medical degree, Università di Napoli, 1879.
• Postgraduate studies under Charcot (1881).
• Translated Charcot's work on aphasia into Italian (1884).
• Researcher and instructor, Universities of Naples, Siena, Pisa.
• Dean, University of Palermo.
• Founder, editor, La riforma medica, 1895.
• GM-2809: “Rummo's disease” (1898).
• Author caption: e pel Dottore Andrea Ferrannini (Assistente).
• Nephew and protégé of G. Rummo.
• Medical degree, University of Naples.
• Postgraduate studies under Richet and Charcot.
• Chair, medicine and pathology, University of Camerino, 1907.
• Index Medicus: 20206621440 (review).

The sixteen lithograph plates are pulsatile recordings, taken with an Angelo Mosso plethysmograph and an Etienne-Jules Marey sphygmograph, modified by the authors for this study. The instruments were fitted to the denuded cerebra of two otherwise healthy male subjects, Francesco Margherita, a 24 year-old mine worker who was knocked off a cliff by an explosive charge, and Giuseppe Gisonda, a 12 year-old boy whose necrotising head wound was caused by a 2 pound clock weight falling from a height of three stories. Concurrent with this study and using the same two subjects, Rummo and Ferrannini researched nocturnal/diurnal brain movements (1879), and the physiology of sleep, published in a paper titled, "La circulation du sang dans le cerveau de l'homme pendant le sommeil" (1891).