The Morbid Anatomy Of The Human Body
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: facsimile ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
At the dawn of modern medicine, one landmark text forever changed how physicians understood disease within the human body — Matthew Baillie's The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Body stands as one of the most consequential medical works in the history of Western science. First published in 1793, this groundbreaking treatise systematically catalogues pathological changes in human organs, presenting with meticulous precision the diseased states of the heart, lungs, liver, stomach, and other vital structures, drawn directly from Baillie's own dissections and clinical observations at St. George's Hospital in London. It was the first work in the English language to treat morbid anatomy as a discipline in its own right, separating it from surgical practice and establishing a new standard for pathological investigation. Baillie's prose is clear, authoritative, and rigorously empirical — a reflection of the Enlightenment's faith in careful observation over received wisdom. A nephew of the celebrated anatomists William and John Hunter, he inherited their tradition of hands-on inquiry and carried it further, producing a volume that informed generations of physicians on both sides of the Atlantic. The work is widely regarded as a foundational text of pathology, cited by later giants of medicine including Laënnec and Rokitansky. For collectors, medical historians, and students of the history of science, this volume remains an indispensable window into the birth of modern diagnostic medicine — raising the question of just how much of what we consider contemporary medicine was seeded in the dissecting rooms of Georgian London.
Author: Matthew Baillie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986
Genre: Medicine
Edition: facsimile ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
At the dawn of modern medicine, one landmark text forever changed how physicians understood disease within the human body — Matthew Baillie's The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Body stands as one of the most consequential medical works in the history of Western science. First published in 1793, this groundbreaking treatise systematically catalogues pathological changes in human organs, presenting with meticulous precision the diseased states of the heart, lungs, liver, stomach, and other vital structures, drawn directly from Baillie's own dissections and clinical observations at St. George's Hospital in London. It was the first work in the English language to treat morbid anatomy as a discipline in its own right, separating it from surgical practice and establishing a new standard for pathological investigation. Baillie's prose is clear, authoritative, and rigorously empirical — a reflection of the Enlightenment's faith in careful observation over received wisdom. A nephew of the celebrated anatomists William and John Hunter, he inherited their tradition of hands-on inquiry and carried it further, producing a volume that informed generations of physicians on both sides of the Atlantic. The work is widely regarded as a foundational text of pathology, cited by later giants of medicine including Laënnec and Rokitansky. For collectors, medical historians, and students of the history of science, this volume remains an indispensable window into the birth of modern diagnostic medicine — raising the question of just how much of what we consider contemporary medicine was seeded in the dissecting rooms of Georgian London.