Title | De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque : dissectiones, et animadversiones, nunc primum editas, complectuntur propemodum innumeras, medicis, chirurgis, anatomicis profuturas. |
Subject | Anatomy, Pathological--Early works to 1800; Pathology--Early works to 1800 |
Creator | Morgagni, Giovanni Battista, 1682-1771 |
Description | Giovanni Battista Morgagni was an Italian physician and anatomist, today recognized as the founder of anatomo-pathology. His first job was as an assistant to Antonio Maria Valsalva, who had been a pupil of Marcello Malphighi. De sedibus was published when Morgagni was seventy-nine years old. He wrote it over a twenty year period. In the form of a series of seventy letters, he gave detailed clinical descriptions of autopsy findings. The system he used to organize these findings provided a correlation between clinical symptoms with pathological findings, proving that postmortem examination was necessary for the study of a disease. For instance, Morgagni described ossificiation (calcification) of cardiac valves as an explanation for fatal heart conditions. |
Date | 1761 |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | lat |
Rights Management | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Holding Institution | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Scanning Technician | Ellen Moffatt |
Call Number | RB24 .M67; Record ID 9955840102001 |
ARK | ark:/87278/s6sf76mb |
Setname | uum_rbc |
ID | 1393462 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf76mb |
Title | Page 6 |
OCR Text | Show |
Format | application/pdf |
Setname | uum_rbc |
ID | 1393468 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf76mb/1393468 |