Morgagni
Americannoun
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Koch, together with Battista Morgagni, René Laënnec and others led the scientific charge against this once mysterious infection: this was continental European medicine in its heyday, triumphant in its powerful ability to discover.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012
Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In investigating the seats of disease, Morgagni is not content to record the coincidence of a lesion in an organ with the symptoms apparently due to disordered function in that organ.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Morgagni, whom Virchow greeted as the Father of Modern Pathology, made a careful study of the pulse and especially of its irregularities.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
On one or two occasions in his own lifetime Morgagni fell ill and venesection was recommended.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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