Anatomy to Pathology (foundations of cellular pathology)

Question 1

What did Antonio Benivieni do?

Answer 1

Performed autopsies, paints and sculpts in attempts to understand the cause of death - work published in 1507

Question 2

What did Morgagni do?

Answer 2

He continued benivieni’s work, performing over 700 autopsies. He established correlations between the pathology of the patient with the naked eye anatomy of the autopsies

Question 3

What did Xavier Bichat do?

Answer 3

He creates the idea that organs are composed of tissues . He used physical and chemical means to separate tissues, and finds that the same tissues are present in different organs and the same tissue undersgoes the same changes in response to disease –> General Pathology

Question 4

What did Rudolf Virchow propose?

Answer 4

He proposed that structural and functional changes withing the cell were the pathological basis of disease, this came after the acceptance of cell theory –> cellular pathology