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MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis. Engraved portrait of the author dated 1762. xcvi, 298, [2]; 452 pages, including half-title and final blank in first volume. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 370x235 mm, contemporary panelled russia with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, rebacked, cover corners worn through; scattered light foxing. Venice: Typographia Remondiniana, 1761 [i. e., 1762]
first edition of the foundation work of modern pathological anatomy; second issue, with Volume 1 title printed in black only. "Morgagni was the first to make a complete and systematic correlation between the symptoms of a particular disease and the anatomical lesions found on post-mortem examination . . . His treatise consisted of approximately 700 case histories and post-mortems, drawn from his own sixty years of experience and from the work of his immediate predecessors"--Norman 1547. Garrison-Morton 2276; PMM 206.
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