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MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista. De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque. Venice: Remondini, 1761.
2 volumes, 2° (370 x 230mm). Half-title and engraved portrait to volume 1, titles with engraved allegorical vignettes, title vol.1 in red and black, with final blank in volume 1 (occasional light spotting). Contemporary half vellum (covers slightly rubbed), modern morocco-backed folders, spines lettered in gilt, slipcases.
FIRST EDITION. Garrison and Morton 2276, 'By this great work, one of the most important in the history of medicine, Morgagni was the true founder of modern pathological anatomy'; Dibner Heralds of Science 125; PMM 206. Morgagni, Professor of Anatomy at Padua, used evidence from his experience and records of some 700 post-mortem dissections, to establish a procedure of basing diagnosis and treatment on a detailed knowledge of the anatomical conditions of common diseases, i.e. a classification of symptoms rather than diseases. The work includes a number of descriptions of new diseases, many of which have remained classics until recent times. (2)
2 volumes, 2° (370 x 230mm). Half-title and engraved portrait to volume 1, titles with engraved allegorical vignettes, title vol.1 in red and black, with final blank in volume 1 (occasional light spotting). Contemporary half vellum (covers slightly rubbed), modern morocco-backed folders, spines lettered in gilt, slipcases.
FIRST EDITION. Garrison and Morton 2276, 'By this great work, one of the most important in the history of medicine, Morgagni was the true founder of modern pathological anatomy'; Dibner Heralds of Science 125; PMM 206. Morgagni, Professor of Anatomy at Padua, used evidence from his experience and records of some 700 post-mortem dissections, to establish a procedure of basing diagnosis and treatment on a detailed knowledge of the anatomical conditions of common diseases, i.e. a classification of symptoms rather than diseases. The work includes a number of descriptions of new diseases, many of which have remained classics until recent times. (2)