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MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. The Seats and Causes of Diseases investigated by Anatomy . . . translated from the Latin . . . by Benjamin Alexander, M.D. [6], ix-xxxii, 868; [6], 770; [6], 604, [152] pages. 3 volumes. 4to, 259x202 mm, contemporary marbled boards, modern calf backs and corners; light foxing at beginning and end of each volume. 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, 2734, 2885; Printing and the Mind of Man 206 (also citing the original edition).
