Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1562

JEAN BAPTISTE BOUILLAUD (1796-1881) Traité clinique et expérimental des fièvres dites essentielles. Chez J.-B. Baillière 1826 [4] vii, 554 pp. 19.7 cm.

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Bouillaud's argument in this treatise was that those conditions commonly known as essential fevers should not be labeled idiopathic, inflammatory, bilious, putrid, ataxic, hectic, or intermittent as proposed by Broussais (see No. 1265 ff.). Bouillaud believed that the causes of fevers would be found in the study of the pathology of organ systems, particularly the blood, and gives many autopsy protocols to support his ideas. It was publications such as this, based on animal experimentation, clinical experience, and postmortem studies, that emphasized the new concept that fevers were but a symptom of various disease entities and were not diseases themselves.

See Related Record(s): 1265

Gift of John Martin, M.D.