ROLANDO, Luigi (1773 – 1831)
1773 – 1831
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Pasquale Baroni · collection of the university of Turin [1] · Public domain
1809
#1388
Saggio sopra la vera struttura del cervello dell’uomo e degl’animali e sopra le funzioni del sistema nervoso.
Includes description of “Rolando’s substance”, “tubercle”, and “funiculus”. Rolando described ablation experiments for brain localization similar to Flourens (No. 1391). They were largely unknown until Magendie publis…
1825
#1393
Osservazioni sul cervelletto.
Rolando was the first to investigate the functions of the cerebellum. His name is perpetuated in the “fissure of Rolando”, so named by F. Leuret, Anatomic comparée, 1839-57, whose attention had been drawn to it previo…
1829
#1394