MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque, Venice: Remondini, 1761, 2 volumes, 2°, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with title to volume I in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait by Giovanni Volpato, engraved title vignettes, text in double column (preliminaries to vol. I detached, frontispiece slightly rubbed in one area, half title with tear at inner margin, both titles slightly soiled, with blind stamp and further stamps on verso, two accession stamps on following page of vol. I, and one stamp on following page of vol. II), contemporary limp pasteboards (spines worn, front inner hinges of vol. I split), uncut [Dibner, Heralds, 125; GM 2276; 2734; 2885; Grolier Medicine 46; Lilly p. 125: "this monumental work may be said to establish the organ concept of disease and to make pathologic anatomy a major medical discipline"; Osler 1178; PMM 206; Waller 6672] Provenance: College of St. Paul & Barnabas, Milan (stamp on title versos); C.E. Rappaport, Rome (bookseller's label). (2)

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MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque, Venice: Remondini, 1761, 2 volumes, 2°, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with title to volume I in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait by Giovanni Volpato, engraved title vignettes, text in double column (preliminaries to vol. I detached, frontispiece slightly rubbed in one area, half title with tear at inner margin, both titles slightly soiled, with blind stamp and further stamps on verso, two accession stamps on following page of vol. I, and one stamp on following page of vol. II), contemporary limp pasteboards (spines worn, front inner hinges of vol. I split), uncut [Dibner, Heralds, 125; GM 2276; 2734; 2885; Grolier Medicine 46; Lilly p. 125: "this monumental work may be said to establish the organ concept of disease and to make pathologic anatomy a major medical discipline"; Osler 1178; PMM 206; Waller 6672] Provenance: College of St. Paul & Barnabas, Milan (stamp on title versos); C.E. Rappaport, Rome (bookseller's label). (2)

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Between his Adversaria Anatomica of 1719 and De Sedibus, et Causis Morborum of 1761, Morgagni, Professor of Anatomy at Padua, had not published any major work. The latter, consisting of a series of 70 letters, is regarded as the "foundation of modern pathological anatomy ... [it] 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 exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structure. It put the final rout to the old humoral pathology" [Heirs of Hippocrates]. At eighty years of age, Morgagni gave the first descriptions of several pathological conditions which were not generally recognised until decades later.