A small but important collection on display here represents a significant part of history in research and didactics within this department of Bologna University. Instruments used in the past measured bioelectrical and mechanical variables including: a chronazimeter, ergographs, arteriographs, slide inducers and diapason stimulators etc.

Human Physiology Collection Photos

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About Human Physiology Collection

This building literally within yards of the old city walls and Porta San Donato is the Human Physiology Department.

Just inside the main entrance is this rather small but important collection of instruments for physiological experimentation.

They are testimony to the rich flow of research and didactics that was carried out here.

The items on display in these glass cases show a wide range of apparatus including electrical machines for physiology in the past. There is actually a full catalogue on display listing and explaining the use of each item. Unfortunately, the first such detailed book to compile this information was written in 1939 and it has yet if ever to be updated.

This collection comprises equipment for measuring bioelectric variables such as a chronazimeter and galvanometers; mechanical variables like myographs, ergographs, kymographs arteriographs, pressure gauges and oncographs. Some were also used for stimulating excitable tissues, for example, slide inducers, electrical metronomes, diapason stimulators and mercury switches.

The photos on the wall are of every professor that has server in this department.

At the back of the building an old lecture room called Aula A. Its semi-circular shape is beautifully decorated in wood calling to mind many of the other original study rooms of the university dating to the late 19th-early 20th century designs.