History of Neurology: ‘Sparkling Italians’ – Giovanni Morgagni, Alessandro Volta, and Luigi Galvani

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  • Dr. Richard J. Barohn, MD

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https://doi.org/10.17161/rrnmf.v7i1_2026.24949

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1. Vesalius A. De humani corporis fabrica. 1555.

2. Morgagni GB. De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque. Venetiis: ex Thypographia. 1761.

3. Morgagni GB. The seats and causes of diseases investigated by anatomy; in five books, ... Translated by Benjamin Alexander, MD, from the Latin of John (Giovanni) Baptist Morgagni. 1769;1.

4. Gilbert W. On the Loadstone of Magnetic Bodies. 1600.

5. Wesley J. Primitive Remedies. 1747.

6. Franklin B. Experiments & Observations on Electricity. 1751.

7. Volta A. On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of different Kinds. Proc. R. Soc. 1832;(1):27.

8. Galvani L. De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius. 1791.

9. Galvani L. Commentary on the effects of electricity on muscular motion, Translated into English by Margaret Glover Foley, with notes and critical introduction by I. Bernard Cohen, Norwalk (Conn.), Burndy Library, 1953.

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2026-06-04

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History of Neurology

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Barohn, R. J. (2026). History of Neurology: ‘Sparkling Italians’ – Giovanni Morgagni, Alessandro Volta, and Luigi Galvani. RRNMF Neuromuscular Journal, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.17161/rrnmf.v7i1_2026.24949