Volume 1
A manual of pathological anatomy / By Carl Rokitansky.
- Rokitansky, Karl, Freiherr von, 1804-1878.
- Date:
- 1849-1854 [v. 1, 1854]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of pathological anatomy / By Carl Rokitansky. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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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 [nnited 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.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33099078_0001_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
