Autopsy in the elderly

Medicine in general, and geriatrics in particular, owe much to the knowledge derived from autopsies.Giovanni Battista Morgagni, the Italian scientist and father of pathological anatomy (1682-1771), in his book On the Locations and Causes of Diseases, describes 50 years of research on 500 autopsies, studying the correlation between clinical symptoms and autopsy findings.It was the final elimination of humoral theory as the sole and final cause of all diseases.This book-a real watershed in the history of medicine-addresses many of the conditions of aging, and was published when the author was already 79 years old.

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