Figure 1.
Morgagni’s description of a case of ventricular wall rupture.
Frontispiece of De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis (JB Morgagni, 1765), with a portrait of Morgagni and Morgagni’s description (‘Epistola anatomico-medica XXVII’) of a case of ventricular wall rupture (by courtesy of the Medical Library of Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy).