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The Medical and Franklin Library of Dr. William von Valtier, Part II
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MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1682-1771.
De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis. Naples: Typographia Simoniana, 1762.

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MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1682-1771.

De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis. Naples: Typographia Simoniana, 1762.
5 volumes in 4. 4to (245 x 186 mm). Woodcut vignettes on title pages, main title in red and black. Contemporary half vellum and marbled boards, green morocco gilt lettering pieces on spines. Rubbed, corners bumped, lacking portrait frontispiece (supplied engraved portrait of Morgagni from another source loosely inserted), scattered foxing.

Second edition of this fundamental work, following the Venice edition of 1761. "The true foundation of modern pathologic anatomy ... while others, like Benivieni, Vesalius, Bonetus, may have looked at diseased viscera in the dead body with some intelligence, it was by the vast scope of his work and his many descriptions of new forms of disease that Morgagni made pathology a genuine branch of modern science" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2776).

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