"Not on the outward appearance .... but on the heart." Matthew Baillie and cardiology.
The work of Matthew Baillie (1761-1823), pathologist and physician, is presented with particular relation to the cardiovascular system. Baillie wrote the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy in the English (or any other) language, and commissioned a book of elegant and accurate illustrations by William Clift (1775-1849). Baillie laid down the anatomical groundwork on which the subsequent generation of physicians built an accurate knowledge of cardiovascular disease. His textbook was widely translated, and influenced medical students and physicians over the first half of the 19th century. His influence on morbid anatomy was similar to that of Vesalius on the science of normal anatomy.
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Department of Pathology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
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