[Medicine] MORGAGNI (Giovanni Battista): Recherches anatomiques sur le siège et les causes des maladies. Paris, Caille et Ravier, 1820-1824. 10 volumes in 8°, contemporary binding in half basane, yellow speckled edges. Jean-Baptiste Morgagni (1682-1771) was an Italian physician, considered the originator of modern anatomopathology. The work consists of a series of 70 letters reporting on some 700 autopsy cases, related to the history of the disease. Ex libris Levavasseur.

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