MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. The Seats and Causes of Diseases investigated by Anatomy . . . translated from the Latin . . . by Benjamin Alexander, M.D. 3 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, shellacked at a later date, rebacked with morocco, endpapers renewed; Volume 1 with fly-title and page 8 soiled, clean tear across 3N2, light marginal dampstaining at end, occasional browning in Volume 2, Volume 3 title and 2 index pages soiled, blank corner off 3Z3. London: A. Millar et al., 1769
first edition in english of the foundation work of modern pathological anatomy. "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 (1761 original edition). Garrison-Morton 2276; Printing and the Mind of Man 206 (also citing the original edition).
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