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ROLANDO, Luigi (1773-1831). Osservazione sul cervelletto . Offprint from Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 29 (1825). [N.p., n.d.]. 4 o (275 x 218 mm). 3 engraved plates. (Minor foxing). Original plain wrappers, uncut (front cover detached, dampstaining and discoloration). Provenance : Jules Falret (1824-1902), eminent psychiatrist (stamp on front wrapper). FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Rolando was the first to investigate the functions of the cerebellum. He concluded from observation of experimentally induced lesions that the cerebellum governs muscular movement even before Marie Jean Pierre Flourens' investigations on pigeons (see lot 1077). F. Leuret, in his 1839-57 Anatomie compare , named the sulcus in the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal the "Rolandic fissure", as Rolando had been the first to indicate it to him. Garrison-Morton 1393; Norman 1846.