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He soon after presented a memoir in the first volume of the 

 Public Disputations of the Medico-Chirufgical Academy of 

 Vienna, De nervo splnali ad octavum cerebri accessorio commen- 

 iaritis, Vindobana^, ann. 1788. 



Two years afterwards, the following memoir appeared, Ana- 

 tomicae disqumtiones de auditu et olfactu. Ticini, 1790, in 

 fol. max. 



An English anatomist having stated in the Royal Society of 

 London, that the heart had no nerves, cor nervis carere, Scarpa 

 accepted the challenge, and some months had hardly elapsed, 

 when he threw himself into the arena with this motto, Regia 

 Societati Lcnidinensi sacrum, the famous work in folio, entitled 

 Tabula neurologiceE ad illustrandam historiam cardmcorum 

 nervorum, noni nervorum cerebri, ghsso-pharyngei et pharyn- 

 gei ex octavo cerebri. Ticini, 1794. ^ H 



In glancing at this work, which cost him so many nights of 

 toil, and which was composed during short intervals, which 

 he did not steal, however, from his duties in teaching anatomy 

 and chemistry, we may easily conceive the enthusiasm with 

 which it was received by the learned in every country ; from 

 this time Scarpa led the van in his science, and, more happy 

 than many others, he never descended from this eminent situa- 

 tion, to which he was raised with such rapidity. 



In 1799, he presented the learned with a valuable work, a 

 true model for analytical observation, on the formation and in- 

 ternal structure of bones, with the title De penitiori ossium 

 structura commentarius, Lipsiae, ann. 1799, in 4to. 



An accidental circumstance favoured this work, and per- 

 haps inspired him with the idea ; it was the discovery of an an- 

 tique cemetry, in the ruins of which he f6und bones, which 

 seemed to have been prepared for displaying their organisation. 

 Long afterwards, new experiments, and some valuable observa- 

 tions on the pathology of the bones, induced Scarpa to publish 

 a second edition, enriched with six tables from the admirable 

 pencil of Anderloni, by the title De anatomid et pathologia os- 

 sium commentarii. Ticini, 1827. 



He published soon after, in the Memoirs of the Italian So- 

 ciety, which was then sitting at Verona, his researches on a 



