| Title |
De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque : dissectiones, et animadversiones, nunc primum editas, complectuntur propemodum innumeras, medicis, chirurgis, anatomicis profuturas. |
| Call Number |
RB24 .M67; Record ID 9955840102001 |
| Date |
1761 |
| 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. |
| Creator |
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista, 1682-1771 |
| Subject |
Anatomy, Pathological--Early works to 1800; Pathology--Early works to 1800 |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
lat |
| Collection Name |
Rare Books Collection |
| Holding Institution |
Rare Books Division, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Ellen Moffatt |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6sf76mb |
| Setname |
uum_rbc |
| ID |
1393462 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf76mb |
