Volume 1

The seats and causes of diseases, investigated by anatomy : containing a great variety of dissections, and accompanied with remarks / by John Baptist Morgagni ... abridged, and eluciated with copious notes, by William Cooke.

  • Morgagni, Giambattista, 1682-1771.
Date:
1822
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Credit: The seats and causes of diseases, investigated by anatomy : containing a great variety of dissections, and accompanied with remarks / by John Baptist Morgagni ... abridged, and eluciated with copious notes, by William Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    PREFACE. AMID the several branches of philosophy which interest the human mind, none can present stronger claims to diligent cultivation than those which relate to the healing art. When we consider the various disorders which afflict the human body, and reflect upon the sufferings they induce, and the desolation they often spread, we cannot fail to be; convinced that every thing which tends to their elucida- tion is highly momentous to mankind. But the subject of pathology is not less compre- hensive than important; and those who have made the highest attainments in this depart- ment of knowledge—those who by attentive observation and ample experience have ac- quired the gr-^atest sagacity of discrimination, and who exercise the utmost skill in treatment— discover every iay that the nature of disease and the indications of cure are very imperfectly understoad, a