TY - JOUR
T1 - The ‘Preliminary Discourse’ to Methodical Nosology, by François Boissier de Sauvages (1772)
AU - Starkstein, Sergio
AU - Berrios, G.E.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - © 2015, The Author(s) 2015. 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.
AB - © 2015, The Author(s) 2015. 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.
U2 - 10.1177/0957154X15602361
DO - 10.1177/0957154X15602361
M3 - Article
C2 - 26574063
VL - 26
SP - 477
EP - 491
JO - History of Psychiatry
JF - History of Psychiatry
SN - 0957-154X
IS - 4
ER -
