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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    p.^hibited under all the complications with which the practitioner has perpetually to con- i^^nd.i; ;-0n many points generalization is prefer- able to the detail of particular cases, but in jqefcrence to others it has justly been said, that 'Gases will probably couYcy more information i i/f. in fewer words than description or narrative, ^m'^^\^^rf^m^il disease which is -ff meant ,,t(ip, be described, and inform, as it , were, by example/'* Dr. Baillie has also .^Upidat^(i)A}^^iP!^^\ti^^ appearances by several j ^fasciculi of plates, which are executed with i .leqnal neatness and fidelity. I :^j>. ]\tprgagni inform us, in the preface to the ^O^^grfi of which an abridgement is here attempted, n^.hat he was, iai a great nieasure, induced to ] undertake its publication on account of the .yfjmUoi pr^ci^iqpj i;;i,in<£iny pt^rts of the Sepul- \ ^ichretum, but more particularly from its needing j^^a supplement to bring it down to his own time. j[J)urjng,-g.^|:^P9f-ar/ a^^^^ from Padua, ^he j fell into the company of a young man of exem- ^ plary character and amiable disposition, who ; .4eligh,t,e^ji;i^fhe;,s^f]i}dy of scienc especially in | * Abernethy on Tumours, p. 23.