The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / by Matthew Baillie.

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1797
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The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / by Matthew Baillie. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : printed for J. Johnson, and G. Nicol, 1797.

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4 unnumbered pages, xxxvi, 460 pages ; 8o

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The second edition, corrected and considerably enlarged.

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Refr: ESTC N20099; G&M 2736 Note: Matthew Baillie, the nephew and pupil of William Hunter, studied at Glasgow university and at Oxford. The above, his most important work, is the first English text on pathology, and the first systematic study in any language. Pathology was treated as an independent science for the first time. Baillie gave the first clinical description of chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema. The lung on which he performed an autopsy before describing this condition is said to have been that of Samuel Johnson. Baillie based most of his observations on specimens preserved in John Hunter's medical museum

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