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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the Mäxi Foundation for financially supporting this research, as well as the “Luigi Cattaneo” Museum of Anatomical Waxes and the Sistema Museale d’Ateneo (SMA) of the University of Bologna for allowing research to be done on this subject during the academic year 2013/2014. Words of gratitude also go to Professor Paolo Scarani (University of Bologna) for kindly offering his authoritative and learned commentary on this topic.

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  1. Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM), University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Francesco M. Galassi & Frank J. Rühli

  2. Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, University of Bologna - Ravenna Campus, Via Ariani 1 Angolo via Diaz, 48100 Ravenna, Italy

    Giorgio Gruppioni

  3. Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), University of Bologna - Medical School, Via Irnerio 48, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    Alessandro Ruggeri

  4. Legal Medicine Section, Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Raffaella Bianucci

  5. Laboratoire d’Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, UMR 7268, Marseille, France

    Raffaella Bianucci

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Galassi, F.M., Gruppioni, G., Ruggeri, A. et al. Luigi Calori (1807–1896). J Neurol 263, 1681–1682 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8024-4

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