Author: MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA.
Title: The Seats And Causes Of Diseases. Three Volumes. Complete.
Description: Special Limited Facsimile Edition; Thick Roy. 8vo; Vol. I. xxxii, 868, (1); Vol. II. vii, 770, (1); Vol. III. pp. viii, 604, (76) indexes, (1); all volumes bound in black leather, endpapers specially commissioned original marbled design, edges gilded, and covers are brass-die stamped in 22-karat gold, silk page markers, fine set. Together with the 22 page booklet "Notes From The Editors" which among things gives a chronology of Giovanni Battista Morgagni 1682-1771, and a bibliography. Birmingham, Alabama; The Classics of Medicine Library; 1983. Morgagni is spoken of as the father of the "anatomical concept." His correlation of symptoms and signs of a disease with the subsequent postmortem findings was the beginning of the science of pathology. He was the first to describe many new things in medicine and the list of eponyms associated with his name covers nearly every region of the body.

Keywords: medical history