Morgagni

Koch, together with Battista Morgagni, René Laënnec and others led the scientific charge against this once mysterious infection: this was continental European medicine in its heyday, triumphant in its powerful ability to discover.

The combined progress of theological scepticism and scientific knowledge relegated witchcraft to the world of phantoms, and the exertions of Morgagni in Italy, of Cullen in Scotland, and of Pinel in France, renovated the whole treatment of acknowledged lunatics.

The foss� Morgagni and the posterior aspect of the soft palate are more frequently affected in the same way than the anterior aspect.

Morgagni, after quoting a great number of instances of wounds of the head followed by visceral abscesses, opposes the idea of a mechanical transportation of pus thither, and states that abscesses are not confined to the liver and that they may follow wounds and ulcers of other parts besides the head.

The celebrated Morgagni gives similar results of his extensive dissections.