Antoine Ritti

Antoine Ritti (1844-1920), forgotten alienist and innovative theorist on the pathophysiology of hallucinations.

Antoine Ritti (1844-1920), now forgotten, was an "alienist" or psychiatrist who formulated a theory of hallucination based on thalamic dysfunction, as described in his thesis defended in 1874. Ritti was a student of Jules Luys and used the anatomical-functional discoveries of his teacher to explain that an automatic activity in the thalamus, by stimulating the cortex without reception of sensor...

Jules - Antoine Regnauld

Jules-Antoine Regnauld (1822-1895), French physician and pharmacist, who carried researches about mydriatic alkaloids (such as atropine), electrochemical phenomena, electromotive force, amalgams, properties of mixing in saline solutions, physiology, electrophysiology, fluorescence in live tissues, medical chemistry, anesthesia, and vision phenomena. Life and career Very little information is av...

Annual Report of Antoine LEMENANT

During the year 2009/2010 I was principally working on 3 different problems in collaboration with 4 different people, 3 of them working in Pisa and one in Parma. Those works led to 3 scientific papers and 1 review paper submitted during the year 2009/2010. The first work is a collaboration with Pablo Àlvarez-Caudevilla, postdoc at the center De Giorgi. We studied a problem in PDEs, about the as...

Antoine - Augustin Parmentier

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), an Army pharmacist, single-handed promoted the introduction of the potato as a cultivar and food in France. His main activities were in agriculture, nutrition, and public health. He was responsible for the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign, pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets, founding the first governmental school of bread ma...

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