Di Ieva Antonio, Yaşargil M Gazi
Department of Neurosurgery, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
Neurosurgery. 2008 Aug;63(2):352-8; discussion 358. doi: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000320438.99843.9F.
Domenico Cotugno was a famous physician who lived in Naples in the 18th century. At the age of only 25 years, he published an important book on the anatomy of the inner ear that contained some theories concerning the physiology of hearing, the later developments of which were associated with the name of Hermann von Helmholtz. Three years later, he wrote a book on the physiopathological causes of sciatic pain, in which, for the first time in medical history, he differentiated true sciatic pain from the pain attributable to secondary causes. Using a series of meticulous dissections and elegant experiments, he showed that not only brain ventricles but also the subarachnoid spaces of the cranium and spine were filled with circulating fluid, which is why cerebrospinal fluid is also known as "liquor cotunnii."
多梅尼科·科图尼奥是一位18世纪居住在那不勒斯的著名医生。年仅25岁时，他就出版了一本关于内耳解剖学的重要著作，其中包含了一些关于听力生理学的理论，其后续发展与赫尔曼·冯·亥姆霍兹的名字相关。三年后，他写了一本关于坐骨神经痛生理病理原因的书，在这本书中，他在医学史上首次将真正的坐骨神经痛与继发原因引起的疼痛区分开来。通过一系列细致的解剖和精妙的实验，他表明不仅脑室，而且颅骨和脊柱的蛛网膜下腔也充满了循环液体，这就是为什么脑脊液也被称为“科图尼奥液”。
