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MORGAGNI ON HOSPITALS AND AUTOPSIES THE greater the opportunity that hospitals give us for observing rare diseases-and this applies even more to the commoner diseases-the more often am I obliged to bewail the lot of the ancient physicians, who lacked hospitals.... But if, after hospitals began to exist, it had been permitted to investigate diseases not only in sick persons but also in those who had died after every sickness, the advances that the medical profession would have made in the subsequent ten centuries can easily be estimated by considering the advances that have been made since both kinds of examination began to be permitted, about the beginning of the i6th century. Therefore it is so much the more incumbent upon those who practice medicine nowadays to repair diligently the damage wrought during so many centuries. . ..
Morgagni, J. B.: Epistle to J. F. Schreiber. In his De Sedibus, Venice, Typ. Remondiniana, I76i, Book IV, vol. II, pp. 253-56. Translation by S. J.
Bull. N. Y. Acad. Med.
MORGAGNI ON HOSPITALS AND AUTOPSIES THE greater the opportunity that hospitals give us for observing rare diseases-and this applies even more to the commoner diseases-the more often am I obliged to bewail the lot of the ancient physicians, who lacked hospitals.... But if, after hospitals began to exist, it had been permitted to investigate diseases not only in sick persons but also in those who had died after every sickness, the advances that the medical profession would have made in the subsequent ten centuries can easily be estimated by considering the advances that have been made since both kinds of examination began to be permitted, about the beginning of the i6th century. Therefore it is so much the more incumbent upon those who practice medicine nowadays to repair diligently the damage wrought during so many centuries. . ..
Morgagni, J. B.: Epistle to J. F. Schreiber. In his De Sedibus, Venice, Typ. Remondiniana, I76i, Book IV, vol. II, pp. 253-56. Translation by S. J.
Bull. N. Y. Acad. Med.
