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Filippo Lussana (17 December 1820 – 25 December 1897) was an Italian physiologist. In his medical research he dealt with the laws of nutrition, functions of the nervous system, cerebral localization, gustatory innervation, the relationship between touch and pain, and the causes of dizziness, and pellagra. Lussana was the author of more than two hundred scientific publications, receiving two gold medals from the Royal Society of Medical Sciences and Natural Sciences in Brussels and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, for his studies on "Fiber and blood" and "Monograph on the encephalic centers". In addition to research, Filippo Lussana was also a writer, a painter and a poet. Combining art and science, he tried to find a dialectical relationship between imagination and analysis, and to achieve a rational synthesis. == Life == Filippo Lussana was born in Cenate Sopra, in Valpredina on 17 September 1820, son of Felice Lussana and Barbara Epis. His home town was in the province of Bergamo, at that time in the Habsburg Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. After elementary school, he attended the "Angelo Mai" college in Clusone in Val Seriana, where he obtained a solid foundation of Latin and classical culture. On the death of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1835, the Rhetoric topic assigned to the pupils was entitled "The Roman Caesar and the Austrian Caesar". Aged fifteen, Lussana wrote "The triumphant Roman Caesar forgave all his enemies; the Austrian Caesar imprisoned them in Spielberg." For such a sacrilegious abuse of authority he was sentenced to imprisonment in his room for three days on a diet of bread and water. An hour later he was sent to the rector Cantelli, who asked him where these ideas had come from. Lussana replied that he had read ''Le mie prigioni'' (''My Prison'') by Silvio Pellico, at which the rector forgave the precocious scholar. Between 1839 and 1844 Lussana attended the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pavia. He was a pupil of Bartolomeo Panizza, who encouraged him to engage in scientific research. His dissertation was on identification of the causative agent in poisoning, and the next year a paper by Lussana on "Creosote as a cause of poisoning in smoked meat products" was published in the ''Annals of Medicine''. After graduating in 1844, Lussana worked as a doctor in several parts of Bergamo, first in San Pellegrino Terme, then Zogno, Mologno in Casazza and finally in Gandino. In 1848 he was a member of the Medical Commission of the national army of the Provisional Government of Lombardy. He observed the Cholera epidemic in Gandino in 1855, co-authoring a report on the epidemic with his brother Peter. In 1859 he enlisted as a medical officer among the volunteers of the Gandino military. Throughout the years leading up to the Italian unification of 1860, while practicing as a doctor he also wrote over forty scientific works. In 1860 Lussana was appointed Professor of Physiology at the University of Parma in succession to G. Albini. In 1867 he was asked to transfer to the University of Padua, where he was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology until 1889, when he retired for health reasons and was made Professor Emeritus of the university. His retirement was due to an infection that was destroying his jawbone. He moved to Cenate Sotto, near his home town, where he was mayor for three years, from 1894 to 1897. He died on 25 December 1897. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Filippo Lussana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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