The Tenchini's collection:a forensic anthropometric legacy of 19th century Parma, Italy  

作　　者：Laura Donato Roberto Toni Alessandro Porro Marco Vitale Fulvio Barbaro Rossana Cecchi 

机构地区：[1]Department of Medicine and Surgery,Section of Forensic Pathology,University of Parma,Parma,Italy [2]Department of Medicine and Surgery,Museum and Historical Library of Biomedicine(BIOMED),and Section of Human Anatomy,University of Parma,Parma,Italy [3]Department of Clinical and Community Sciences,University of Milan,Milan,Italy [4]Department of Medicine and Surgery,Section of Human Anatomy,University of Parma,Parma,Italy

出　　处：《Forensic Sciences Research》2019年第1期82-87,共6页法庭科学研究（英文）

摘　　要：A group of 19th century inmates dead in the prison of Parma are the protagonist of an incredible scientific collection. Lorenzo Tenchini started the creation of this collection and dedicated his work and his studies to its completeness. Anatomist and academic, Lorenzo Tenchini (1852–1906) dedicated his scientific studies to macroscopic anatomy, particularly about central nervous system and its correlation with psychic function. In 1881 he became ordinary professor in Normal Human Anatomy at the University of Parma dedicating himself to the study of the anatomical organization of the brain and psychic and social disturbs. During the study of the skulls and brains of psychotic patients and the deformations of skulls belonging to patients admitted in the Hospital of Brescia, he started a collaboration with Alessandro Cugini (1829–1913), founder of the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University of Parma. Tenchini realized an anatomical collection, preserved today in the Museum of Biomedicine of the University of Parma. This collection represents the master-piece of his research carried out during his academic activity and still a unicum in the west-ern world, as there are no similar collection assembling such a multidisciplinary information. The peculiarity of this collection is due not only to the scientific interest of the anatomic samples and their full clinical documentation, but also to the methods employed in order to realize it. At the end of the 19th century, as a student of Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), Tenchini based his work on the study of the face, the skull and brain of each dead inmate of Parma's prison or Colorno's mental hospital. These individuals as protagonists of Tenchini's collection, leave a legacy identifiable as scientific heritage. Their skulls and brains, the reproduction of their faces through ceroplastic and other anatomical samples treated with other techniques, are accompanied by an autoptic and psychiatric full documentation, allowing the collection to be complete with every as

关 键 词：Anatomical collection death mask forensic sciences INMATES MULTIDISCIPLINARY PARMA 

分 类 号：X70[环境科学与工程—环境工程]