Word: morgagni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Osier (1849-1919), Canadian, was a great teacher in the U. S. and England; wrote extensively. Most of these men lived to a ripe old age, to study, heal and teach. Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death. (Hippocrates was either 99 or 73 according to conflicting dim reports of his life.) The youngest to die was Laennec...
Some British correspondents preferred to put Morgagni among the first five instead of Hunter on the grounds of precedence in time...
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), Italian, studied the pathology of the organs...
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