The ‘Preliminary Discourse’ to Methodical Nosology, by François Boissier de Sauvages (1772)

The eighteenth century witnessed an intense drive to classify diseases as natural kinds. Together with Linné, Macbride, Cullen, Sagar and Vogel, François Boissier de Sauvages, Professor of Medicine at Montpellier, was an important player in this process. In his monumental Nosologie Méthodique, Sauva...

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Published inHistory of psychiatry Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 477 - 491
Main Authors Starkstein, SE, Berrios, GE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2015
Subjects
Disease - classification
Disease - history
France
History of medicine and histology
History, 18th Century
Humans
France
Montpellier
nosology
vitalism
Animism
18th century
diseases
medicine
history
Boissier de Sauvages
classification
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Summary:The eighteenth century witnessed an intense drive to classify diseases as natural kinds. Together with Linné, Macbride, Cullen, Sagar and Vogel, François Boissier de Sauvages, Professor of Medicine at Montpellier, was an important player in this process. In his monumental Nosologie Méthodique, Sauvages based his nosological system on the more botanico view proposed by Thomas Sydenham, namely, that human diseases (including mental ailments) should be classified in the same way as were plants. Classic Text No. 104 is an abridged translation of the Preliminary Discourse to the Nosologie Méthodique.
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ISSN:0957-154X
1740-2360
DOI:10.1177/0957154X15602361