The Rokitansky Autopsy Method, Rediscovered

Knowledge about Carl Rokitansky's autopsy method has been regrettably obscured by the fact that he never published his own method, and by subsequent errors and assumptions introduced by generations of pathologists publishing without primary source material. This article shows that Rokitansky's autopsy method was probably never truly lost, but was hiding in plain sight for those who would seek it through rather esoteric secondary sources. His method is reconstructed here for the first time in over a century for an English-speaking audience.