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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    siffijects, and wrote a desoripUon of tlieiii. During the fifteenth century the practice ol' dissecting human bodies gained ground \n atl^t^e tiniversities, and when Carpi, then a celebrated physician at Bologna, dissected them, which he did as often as circumstances allowed him, we, are infoithied-that the dis- sections were hot regarded by his icarned brethren with wonder. In the reforiiiation of iriedicine here, ncl pdfSdri^^^^^ to have assisted mdire than Petrarch the poet. Over thc^ gate of the maguificent edifice appropriated td the Academy of Sciences, i^^'the following ]MrM^'inM^iiibti.^Bmmis^^Sc^^ ai- qiit artiiim institidum ad publicttm tofius orbis tisum. The anatomical theatre is adorned with st&Wie^*6P*d^brdted {physicians, and m mu- seum supplied anatomical preparations, and a complete series of anatomical figures' in wax. ^ Am6ngst'th^'renowned individuals, who ha\'^ held professorships here, stands the name 6f the great Malpighi, who ranks among the fii-st physiologists of his age, and in his time thi^ famous university 'was in the meridian of its glory. With his industry in the pursuit of science he combined a remarkable degree of