A great change in medical thinking unfolds, case by case, as we read. Human ingenuity takes many forms. Morgagni's genius lay in a change of perception. He gave medicine a new way to see illness. What he did was radical and revolutionary, but patient and methodical at the same time.
Historians can usually find feet of clay, or a mean streak, in heroes.
But not Morgagni. His powerful religious and humanitarian convictions drove him to work without haste and without rest until he was 89. He was still going strong when he died of a stroke in 1771. Nuland, S.B., Doctors, the Biography of Medicine . See Episode 1095 for the aftermath of Morgagni's thinking.