first edition
1728 · Lugduni Batavorum:
by MORGAGNI, Joannis Baptistae [Giovanni Battista] (1682-1771).
Lugduni Batavorum:: Joannes a Kerkhem, 1728., 1728. Two parts in one volume. 4to. [20], 308 pp. Title with engraved vignette by Jak. [Jacobus] Houbraken (1698-1780). Original full vellum, manuscript spine title; minor stains. Ownership inscription of Dr. med. Wilhelm Pfitzner [Thitzner?], Strassburg, 16, 1890; Rubber stamp: Doctor Mario E. Spada. Nice copy. First edition of this important work on the liver. ?Morgagni's scholarly ability was apparent at an early age. At sixteen he was a pupil of Valsalva at Bologna, and there he received the stimulus to devote his life to pathology. By 1715 he took the chair of anatomy at Padua, a seat which he held with utmost distinction for many years. He was a brilliant and tireless investigator and, in addition to his work in medicine and anatomy, was a student of the classics and an archaeologist of repute.? - Heirs of Hippocrates, 789 [later printing]. / Morgagni's Adversaria (1717-19), Epistolae Anatomicae duae (1728), and Epistolae Anatomicae duodeviginti (1740), ?represent new contributions to the mechanical interpretation of the structure of the organism.? - DSB, IX, p. 511. / Morgagni, Italian pathologist, teacher, and anatomist, is considered one of the founders of pathological anatomy. PROVENANCE: Pfitzner Wilhelm (1853–1903), medecin, professeur d?anatomie. See: Jean-Marie Le Minor, Titres et Travaux, 2017, (p. 96). - Doctor Mario E. Spada. - Dr. Hernan Demonti. [Obituary]. G. Schwalbe, ?Wilhelm Pfitzner?. Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Anthropologie, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Bd. 5, H. 3 (1903), pp. V-XII (8 pages). REFERENCES: Blake, 312; BMN I, 102; DSB IX, pp. 510-2; Waller 6677; Wellcome IV, 178; Zanelli, Renato, ?Catalogo ragionato delle edizioni Morgagni,? 1931. See: Heirs of Hippocrates, 503 [1762 edition]. See: L Belloni, ?Contributo all?epistolario Boerhaave=Morgagni. L?Edizione della Epistolae anatomicae duae Leida 1728.? Physis Riv Int Stor Sci. 1971; 13, pp.81-109.
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