The article presents the brains collection of the Museum of Human Anatomy of the University of Turin. Carlo Giacomini (1840-1898) engaged research on the nervous system and proposed a new technical procedure for preserving the brain through drying. He prepared more than thousand brains using his method.
Carlo Giacomini, his "new process for preserving the brain" and the dispute with Lombroso over "criminal brains"
GIACOBINI, Giacomo;CILLI, Cristina;MALERBA, Giancarla
2016-01-01
Abstract
The article presents the brains collection of the Museum of Human Anatomy of the University of Turin. Carlo Giacomini (1840-1898) engaged research on the nervous system and proposed a new technical procedure for preserving the brain through drying. He prepared more than thousand brains using his method.
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