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Matthew Baillie's Morbid Anatomy of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body was first published in 1793. It was not a book on pathology in the traditional medical sense, that is, it was not a study of the causes, nature, course, and "products" of disease. Nor was it, like Morgagni's De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indigatis of 1761, a systematic survey of correlated clinical and pathological findings. It was instead a straightforward presentation, organ by organ, of postmortem pathological anatomical changes. Although one may suppose that Baillie more or less espoused the humoral pathological views of his uncle, John Hunter, they appear only occasionally in the Morbid Anatomy, eg, in his discussion of the organization of pericardial exudate. The accuracy of his observations and the excellence of his descriptions of pathological anatomy make the book readily accessible to the modern physician.Dr. Rodin's main title is slightly |
