He gives several remarkable instances of faith healing.
(2) De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis.

8th, Florence, Gandhi, 1507.
(3) Possibly it was only a case of angina Ludovici, or retro-pharyngeal abscess.
To know accurately the anatomical changes that take place in disease is of importance both for diagnosis and for treatment.

The man who created the science, who taught us to think anatomically of disease, was Morgagni, whose "De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis"(4) is one of the great books in our literature.

During the seventeenth century, the practice of making post-mortem examinations had extended greatly, and in the "Sepulchretum anatomicum" of Bonetus (1679), these scattered fragments are collected.( 5) But the work of Morgagni is of a different type, for in it are the clinical and anatomical observations of an able physician during a long and active life.

The work had an interesting origin.