ABSTRACT
Mankind has lived with disease for all of his existence. Archaeologists often find evidence of disease processes in excavated skeletons, and the first naked eye observations of the morphological changes caused by disease processes must have been made in prehistoric times. It was not until 1761, however, that Giovanni Morgagni, working at the University of Padua in Italy, realized that, by systematically recording his observations at postmortem examination, he could document the changes brought about in a body by disease (although others had done this in a piecemeal fashion before him).
