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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    fticffi, all sound reasoning and solid iniprove- ment in medical science must%e^fbiirfd'ed. A deep conviction of the iniportance of the subject induced me to undertake an abridge- nient of Morgagni's voluminous workDe SedWuk §t.Caiisis MorhofiMy 'per^ cmxaorrM hxid if, by rendering more accessible the valuable; stores contained in this lorig-celebrated work; ^d hy r^cmmjig^^f&^ljt my o^ln ^iss^ftiBiisi I may be the means of difFusino; that knowledo-e bpMich'disease may be better understood, sliall.be amply rewarded 'f8^W]^1iTirrible thougli rather arduous' labour as Sh editor, .^rOther anatomists preceded Morgagni in this pa^ of research, and the Sepulchretum Anato- micum, by Theophilxis Bdneftis, claims priority ofiiattention. Amidst numerous repetitions, 4nd many vague and useless riarration$i^fifs ^eik cofitaiW^ fact^ *^gl^6aff ^itei^i^aiiS^ a^ affords evidence of indefatigable industr3^ Many of the facts, also, which arie related in Lieutaiid's Hikorid AMUniitd-Medica a'fe ex- tremely valuable and interesting, but in the detail of symptoms it is exceedingly defective. 1 might add the celebrated names of Ruysch and Haller, both of whom have very acc\irat^jy^ bis-