Meli Domenico Bertoloni
HPS Department, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, USA.
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2019 Oct 1;74(4):391-415. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrz040.
The publications on morbid anatomy by Matthew Baillie and Samuel Thomas Soemmerring put pathological preparations and images center stage. A comparison between their works highlights major shifts from exceptional to more representative cases and significant differences in the art of representation. Initially Baillie provided careful descriptions of internal postmortem lesions (1793). Then Soemmerring's prompt German translation added a wealth of references to the literature and specifically to pathological images available in print (1794). Soon after a second unillustrated edition incorporating some of Soemmerring's comments (1797), Baillie issued ten installments with dozens of pathological plates (1799-1803). His plates differed from those referred to by Soemmerring for their broader scope, representing common and rare conditions alike, and specific attention to the fine changes of texture of the affected parts. Their works document the crucial status of pathological preparations and images at the time and highlight the achievement of Baillie's work at an artistic as well as at an intellectual level.
马修·贝利（Matthew Baillie）和塞缪尔·托马斯·索默林（Samuel Thomas Soemmerring）关于病理解剖学的出版物将病理标本和图像置于核心地位。对他们作品的比较凸显了从特殊病例到更具代表性病例的重大转变，以及表现手法上的显著差异。最初，贝利对尸体内部病变进行了细致描述（1793年）。随后，索默林迅速出版的德文译本增加了大量文献参考，特别是已出版的病理图像（1794年）。在包含索默林部分评论的第二版无插图版本出版后不久（1797年），贝利发行了十期，配有数十张病理图版（1799 - 1803年）。他的图版与索默林所提及的不同，范围更广，涵盖了常见和罕见病症，并且特别关注患病部位质地的细微变化。他们的作品记录了当时病理标本和图像的关键地位，并凸显了贝利作品在艺术和学术层面上的成就。
