Considered the Foundation of Modern Pathological Anatomy
De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Cornelium Haak, 1767.
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MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista. De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Cornelium Haak, 1767.
Early edition. Five books in two quarto volumes (9 x 7 inches; 230 x 180 mm). [4], cxliii, [1, blank], 222; [4], 310; [2], 442; [2], 351, [1 blank] pp. Books four and five with continuous pagination. With engraved vignettes, head and tail pieces. With half-titles.
Contemporary full brown calf. Spines with tan morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edges dyed brown. Some scuffing and rubbing to boards. Corners bumped. Both volumes lacking the front and back free endpapers. Each volume with a gift inscription by Scottish physician Joannes Unthank in volume I on the verso of the half-title, and in volume II on verso of the title-page for book three. Another gift inscription from Sir Richard Franklin to the City Limerick Infirmary on to margin of title-page of both volumes. Internally very clean. Overall a very good set.
Morgagni’s De sedibus, et causis morborum, “published when he was seventy-nine years of age, had been years in preparation, and constitutes a foundation of modern pathological anatomy. Vast in scope, it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine. In it he 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 an exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structures. It put the final rout to the old humoral pathology. Morgagni’s contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology” (Heirs of Hippocrates).
[For first edition of 1761]: Garrison and Morton 2276. Heirs of Hippocrates 501. Lilly Library, Notable Medical Books, p. 125. Norman Library 1547. Osler 1178. Printing and the Mind of Man 206. Waller 6672.
HBS 69259.
$750.
Price: $750.00
Item #69259