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Mirko Drazen Grmek, « La réception du De Sedibus de Morgagni en France au 18e siècle », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1991.1795
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Mirko D. Grmek : The reception of Morgagnts De sedibus in France. Morgagni's monumental work, published in Venice in 1761, constituted an epistemological break in the history of medicine. But in order to understand the nature of Morgagni's conceptual innovation, a new step in the conceptualisation of illness had to be taken. His first commentators and imitators in France, in particular Lieutaud, Portal and Vicq d'Azyr, tried subtly to reduce his work's importance by emphasizing its breadth rather than its originality. In the historical development of pathology, a new break took place during the early decades of the 19th Century, mainly in Paris hospitals. This article analyzes reactions to Morgagni's organic pathology in France before the end of the 18th Century, that is before they were to some extent outmoded, or rather integrated into a new scientific vision.