. Tri-State medical journal . its day, although it treats largelyof monstrosities and had a high opinion of it,yet it is a verbose, cumbersomeand unsystematic compilation ofwell and ill authenticated cases. Morgagni discusses the meritsand demerits of Bonets work inthe preface to his own book. Mor-gagni has related to us the circumstances under which he undertook to writethe %LDe Sedibus. He was taking a holiday in the country and spentmuch of his time in the company of a young friend who was eager forknowledge upon many subjects. The conversation turning upon BonetsSepulchr
. Tri-State medical journal . its day, although it treats largelyof monstrosities and had a high opinion of it,yet it is a verbose, cumbersomeand unsystematic compilation ofwell and ill authenticated cases. Morgagni discusses the meritsand demerits of Bonets work inthe preface to his own book. Mor-gagni has related to us the circumstances under which he undertook to writethe %LDe Sedibus. He was taking a holiday in the country and spentmuch of his time in the company of a young friend who was eager forknowledge upon many subjects. The conversation turning upon BonetsSepulchretum, his friend suggested that he should record his own observa-tions. He agreed that letters upon the anatomy of diseased organs andparts should be written for his young friend. He wrote in all seventy letters make up the liDe Sedibus et Causis Morborum. These let-ters are arranged in five books, as follows: Lib. I. de Morbis Capitis. de Morbis Thoracis, Lib. LLL. de Morbis Ventris. Lib. LV. de Morbis-. DR. ARTHUR E. MINK, OF ST. LOUIS. Historical Sketch-Mink. 365 ad Chirurgiam, ant ad universum Corpus, spectantibus, Lib. V. de adden-dis ad singalos quator Libros superiores. The five books are dedicatedrespectively to Trew, Bromfield, Senac, Schreiber and Meckel. This greatwork which was not published until he was in his eightieth year, marks thebeginning of a new era in medicine; the era of exact pathologico-anatomi-cal research. It contains the records of about 640 autopsies, made uponindividuals in all ranks of life, from princes to paupers. The description of some of the autopsies are long, exhaustive, and al-most as accurate as those which issue from our most modern pathologicalinstitutes. Others are shorter and serve only to elucidate some specialquestion. Symptomatology he freely discusses and he makes occasionalexcursions into the domain of general pathology and therapeutics. Theauthors knowledge of early and contemporary medical literature, as e
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