Q: What do you call a dog wearing ear muffs?
A: Anything you want -- he can't hear you.
Matthew BaillieBorn 27 Oct 1761; died 23 Sep 1823 at age 61.Scottish pathologist whose Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body (1793) was the first publication in English on pathology as a separate subject and the first systematic study of pathology ever made. It established morbid anatomy as an independent science. Baillie gave the first clinical descriptions of gastric ulcer and chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema and presented one of the clearest descriptions ever written on the pulmonary lesions of tuberculosis. The first American edition was published in Albany in 1795. |
