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Morgagni on Disease in Old Age
Author(s) -
Howell Trevor H.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1975.tb00634.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gerontology , observer (physics) , disease , geriatrics , general surgery , pathology , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics
Giovanni Battista Morgagni published his life work at the age of 80, consisting of 70 letters on medical cases and their autopsies. He is considered the founder of pathologic anatomy. Many of the entities which he described were found in aged subjects. Modern geriatric medicine owes much to this great medical observer.