Autopsy (Nashelsky)

Question 1

person credited with being one of the first to discard the idea that disease arises from humors and attribute the cause of disease to dysfunction and abnormal structures of the body

Answer 1

giovanni battista morgagni (1700s)

Question 2

one of the first pathologists who made great strides in describing specific organs and abnormalities of those organs; over 70,000 autopsies are attributed to him

Answer 2

karl rokitansky (1800s)

Question 3

credited with making connections between gross and microscopic abnormalities, an idea which precluded the basis of cellular pathology in medicine

Answer 3

rudolph virchow (late 1800s)

Question 4

advocated case based learning and founded ‘case records’ section in the NEJM

Answer 4

richard cabot (early 1900s)