Discovering the Institutes of Human Physiology and General Pathology
19-20 November 2022
Supervisor: Stefania Pizzimenti
The initiative is part of the 'VICINI' project.
The tour starts at the Institute of General Pathology (30 min), followed by the Institute of Human Physiology (30 min). The first part of the visit includes an interactive journey to discover the Institute of General Pathology and its founder, Giulio Bizzozero, the Italian scientist who discovered platelets while studying blood. Visitors will be able to retrace the stages of his scientific life, view the hand-illustrated didactic tables he and his pupils made, verify the relevance of these to modern preparations, get up close and personal with his scientific discoveries (platelets, chromocytometer), observe some of the laboratory instruments in use at the time (microscopes, centrifuges), and relive the reality of the environments in which the scholars of the late 19th century worked with a visit to a period study. During the visit, 'Giulio Bizzozero' himself will wander the rooms, telling those present about his human adventure and discoveries.
It will also be possible to see the docu-fiction 'Giulio Bizzozero and the City of Science', directed by Lorenzo Gambarotta, with Pietro Bianucci as voice and Marco Caudera as Bizzozero, and the backstage video.
The visit will continue in the Department of Human Physiology, where the public will be able to take a close look at some laboratory instruments used in the late 19th/early 20th century by the physiologist Angelo Mosso, for the study of muscle contraction and fatigue, and blood circulation, also in the brain district. Visitors will then be able to approach, through practical demonstrations, the modern investigation techniques used to investigate the same functions (Echo-Doppler, Near Infrared Spectrography, Transcranial Doppler, Electroencephalography, Electromyography). Multimedia content, such as the video dedicated to the Angelo Mosso institute at Col d'Olen, provides additional content. The institute at Col D'Olen, inaugurated in 1907, is located in the basin between Corno del Camoscio and Mount Stohlemberg, at 2,901 metres above sea level in the Monte Rosa group. It is named after Angelo Mosso, its creator. Here, the professor and his students carried out research into human physiology at high altitudes.
Families with children are welcome.
Docufiction “Giulio Bizzozero e la Città della Scienza”
(narrated by Piero Bianucci, with Marco Caudera as Giulio Bizzozero; directed by Lorenzo Gambarotta; screenplay by Claudia Bocca, Mara Fausone, Lorenzo Gambarotta, Annalisa B. Pesando)