Volume 1

The seats and causes of diseases, investigated by anatomy : containing a great variety of dissections, and accompanied with remarks / by John Baptist Morgagni ... abridged, and eluciated with copious notes, by William Cooke.

  • Morgagni, Giambattista, 1682-1771.
Date:
1822
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    When the present highly improved state of medical science is contrasted with the ridicu- lous notions and barbj^rp^i^ practij(;jp^ of^Foi;mer ages, we are at once impressed and delightcfl with the remarkable contrariety; but we are apt to overlook the circumstances by which the superiority of modern times has been established. The various steps in the progress, ^how^^r, ought ;i)9t^ tg^.^ jfii^i^g^;;^ idifficult researches,i.^e derive encouragemei^t from the recollection, that although the exer- tions of an iiidividual^, rn^y np^t^^^jjaj^ce phil9- '^phy in any perceptible degree^ ye^, p:win^ to the power.; off, exam pie, and the successive influence ;<pjf opinion, the ^^ost obscure,, ^ a^d •apparently unsuccessful inquirer,, riii^^y proye ...the first or the connecting link in a series of the ^ (most valuable discoveries. Thi^ obseryation has «^t^een.,©ftemvf,ri%(Jj a^^^^ aireiquently than in those which tend to elucidate tior alleviate disease. No ob ject^; of intellectual pursuit eai].,affQ\'4 fil9ji'G. jH?ij^^^^ an en- f^lightened mind than .the, subjects in q^ue^tif)n ; ,i:and in no allotment of human labour caij indivi- dual exertion .afford, t^he prospect of greater be- nefit to mankind than in the medical profession.