Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 793

GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORGAGNI (1682-1771). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque. Padua: Sumptibus Remondinianis, 1765. 2nd ed. Vol. I: lxxxiv, 256 pp., front. (port.); Vol. II: 338 pp; 38.1 cm.

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This second edition of Morgagni's landmark work contains additions and corrections to the first edition, but it is by no means a rewriting. Morgagni strove always to make simple what could have become complicated descriptions, and his Latin is utterly lucid.

Cited references: Waller 6673

Gift of John Martin, M.D.