Volume 1

A manual of pathological anatomy / translated from the German by W.E. Swaine, E. Sieveking, C.H. Moore and G.E. Day.

  • Carl von Rokitansky
Date:
1844-52
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of pathological anatomy / translated from the German by W.E. Swaine, E. Sieveking, C.H. Moore and G.E. Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    extracts from a short account of the career of this great patho- logist, copied by a friendly hand from the last edition [1854] of Brockhaus's ‘Conversation's Lexicon.' “ Charles Rokitansky, the founder of the German [it should rather have been called, Austrian] medico-anatomical school, was born at Konigsgraetz, in Bohemia, was educated at the Gymnasium of Leitneritz, and graduated, at Vienna, in 1828. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Assistant in the patho- logico- anatomical department of the University, and, in 1834, Professor of Pathological Anatomy. At the same time he was instituted Prosector at the General [united Civil and Military] Hospital at Vienna, and also sole medico-legal Anatomist for the examination of all doubtful cases of death throughout that metropolis. “ The immense fund of materials thus placed at his disposal [the number of corpses dissected by him is summed up at 30,000] was almost entirely reserved for the elaboration of that grand work on pathological anatomy, which, in the conscious- ness of having thoroughly mastered the subject, he gave to the world between the years 1842 and 1846; which has passed, unaltered, through three reimpressions; and which, under the auspices of the Sydenham Society, has been translated into the English language. “ In 1849 Rokitansky was appointed Dean of the Medical Faculty, and, in 1850, Rector of the University, of Vienna. York. ; January, 1855.
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