Charles Creighton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18… (1911)
“ Shortly after coming to Padua he married a lady of Forli, of noble, parentage, who bore him three sons and twelve daughters. Morgagni enjoyed an unequalled popularity among all classes. He was of tall and dignified figure, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and with a frank and happy expression ”
Charles Creighton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18… (1911)
“ Haller speaks of it as “an immortal work, which may in itself serve for a pathological library.” Morgagni, in the preface to his own work, discusses the defects and merits of the Sepulchretum: it was largely a compilation of other men’s cases, well and ill authenticated; it was prolix, often inaccurate and misleading from ignorance of the normal anatomy, and it was wanting in what would now be called objective impartiality—a quality which, was introduced as decisively into morbid anatomy by Morgagni, as it had been introduced two centuries earlier into normal human anatomy by Vesalius. ”
Charles Creighton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18… (1911)
“ MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1682–1771) , Italian anatomist, was born on the 25th of February 1682 at Forlì. [1] His parents were in comfortable circumstances, but not of the nobility; it appears from his letters to G. M. Lancisi that Morgagni was ambitious of gaining admission into that rank, and it may be inferred that he succeeded from the fact that he is described on a memorial tablet at Padua as “nobilis forolensis.” At the age of sixteen he went to Bologna to study philosophy and medicine, and he graduated with much éclat as doctor in both faculties three years later (1701) . ”
