Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 688

GIOVANNI MARIA LANCISI (1654-1720) Translation of De subitaneis mortibus (On sudden deaths). St. John's University Press [1971] xx, 212 pp. 25.3 cm.

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Lancisi was one of the outstanding Italian clinicians of the early eighteenth century and was particularly skilled as a cardiologist. The present work on fatal illnesses was first published in 1707 and includes many postmortem findings, occasioned by the rash of sudden deaths that occurred in Rome during 1705 and 1706. Numerous diseases are mentioned in the autopsy reports, and Lancisi correlates many older classical ideas of disease with the newly-evolving clinical-pathological ideas which culminated in Morgagni's De sedibus in 1761 (see No. 792). This English translation was done by Alfred V. Boursy of Holy Cross College in Massachusetts at the request of Paul Dudley White (see No. 2324), the well-known cardiologist, who assisted Boursy in preparing the book.

See Related Record(s): 792 2324

Cited references: Cushing L34 (1709 ed.); Garrison-Morton 2731 (1707 ed.); Osler 3148 (1707 ed.); Waller 5542 (1708 ed.); Wellcome III, p. 441 (1707 ed.)