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after Harvey’s death. Morgagni[1] in Italy; the French anatomists of the early part of this century, Corvisart and Laennec, Broussais and Gruveilhier; in Germany Meckel and Rokitansky, and in England Baillie, Abercrombie, Carswell and Bright—these were the founders of scientific Pathology on a sure anatomical basis almost within living memory.
Not only had Harvey the prescience to recommend the study of Morbid Anatomy for itself, but he had himself recorded a large number of dissections, or, as we should now call them, inspections, of diseased bodies. Unfortunately these post-mortem reports, with his observations on the generation of insects, and other manuscripts were destroyed, or irrevocably dispersed, when his house in London was searched while he was with the King at Oxford. If the records of these inspections had been published,
- ↑ John Baptist Morgagni died at Bologna in 1771, but his great work, De sedibus et causis morborum, was only published in 1780.
