Clinical commentaries deduced from the morphology of the human body : part general / by Achille de Giovanni ; translated by John Joseph Eyre.

  • De Giovanni, Achille, 1838-1916.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Clinical commentaries deduced from the morphology of the human body : part general / by Achille de Giovanni ; translated by John Joseph Eyre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vlll and maturity, are found to be not so disunited that one cannot observe a concatenation and uniformity of working, and therefore they reciprocally illustrate one another. Virchow, a splendid emana- tion of the times thus prepared, has the clearest vision of the origins of a great part of pathology and of the evolution of organic forces, when he affirms that the abnormal development of the organs is the object of necessary investigations for solving the difficult questions regarding morbid dispositions, and when he says that every ethnological form finds its equivalent in general pathology. In reality, the modern morphological method is founded ex- clusively upon experience concerning the facts of the organization of Beings, and is directed by the doctrinaire conceptions which from them are legitimately derived. Morphology has also suggested the quantitative study of Beings, and relatively to Man, with whom we must occupy ourselves, I maintain that Morphology has united to itself somatometry for the positive verification of the Individuality according to physiological and pathological requirements. Thirteen years have elapsed since, following this scientific method, the first edition of this book was published. To-day it is satisfactory to me to know that similar conceptions have not only been confirmed, but also fully approved by able Italian biologists, such as Camerano, Andres, Ficalbi, Grassi, and others. And I am equally pleased that these thirteen years have been as many years of control to the somatometrical method intro- duced by me for the verification of the human individuality, though the work especially of my pupils and of others.1 Therefore I think that every clinical investigation should be conducted on the basis of the individuality morphologically verified, for every other verification of the facts and phenomena in relation to doctrine and practice in their turn in every con- crete case individualize themselves, or, to speak better, present themselves, not such as they may be according to the data of 1 I have much pleasure in recording here the names of the able doctors Massa- longo, Pennato, Pugliesi, Remor, Romaro, Nalin, Chiaruttini, Messedaglia and Vainanidis, Rothschild, Lolide, Surgeon-Captain Ostino with Lieutenant Gilar- doni, Galdi; Viola, who is about to publish a book which will do him credit; and Professor Castellino, of the University of Naples; and Gregoracci—warm sup- porters of the morphological method.
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