Abstract
One must remember the maxim of Giovanni Battista Morgangni, the father of morbid anatomy that: ‘Those who have dissected or inspected many bodies have at least learnt to doubt, whilst those who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend to it are in no doubt at all’.
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