MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista.
£10,500 · Offered by Sokol Books
.A lovely unsophisticated copy, still in its publisher s binding, of this medical masterpiece, the first edition of Morgagni s (1682-1771) treatise on clinical medicine grounded in anatomy, containing detailed descriptions of hundreds of dissections, from the library of an unknown contemporary physician, possibly from Montecalvo in Campania. . .De sedibus consists of a series of letters solicited by an unnamed patron, arranged into books on diseases of the head, torso (including the heart and arteries, which Osler describes as being of particular value), stomach, and two books of surgical and universal diseases, including fevers, tumours, broken bones, sexual diseases, arthritis, epilepsy and paralysis, etc. Published when [Morgagni] was seventy-nine years of age, [it] had been years in preparation, and constitutes a foundation of modern pathological anatomy. Vast in scope, it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine. In it he reports in precise and exhaustive detail his findings in nearly seven hundred autopsy dissections, introducing and insisting on the concept that diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease must be based on an exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structures. It put the final rout to the old humoral pathology. Morgagni s contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology (Heirs of Hippocrates). Osler referred to it
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