1682–1771 Italian professor and physician who made many anatomical discoveries, was a pioneer of pathological anatomy and elucidated clinical diagnosis.
Keywords: anatomy; clinical medicine; diagnosis; pathological anatomy
Morgagni, Giovanni Baptista
Malcolm Nicolson, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002416
| Further Reading | |
| book Morgagni GB (1769) The Seats and Causes of Diseases Investigated by Anatomy, Alexander B (transl). London: Miller and Caddell. | |
| Cunningham A (1995) Pathology and the case-history in Giambattista Morgagni's ‘On the Seats and Causes of Diseases Investigated through Anatomy’. Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte 14: 37–61. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| Jarcho S (1948) Giovanni Battista Morgagni: his interests, ideas and achievements. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 22: 503–527. | |
| book Jarcho S (ed.) (1984) The Clinical Consultations of Giambattista Morgagni: The Edition of Enrico Benassi. Boston: The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. | |
| book Nicolson M (1992) "Giovanni Battista Morgagni and eighteenth-century physical examination". In: Lawrence C (ed.) Surgical Practice; Medical Theory, pp. 101–134. London: Routledge | |
