Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 873

FRANçOIS BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES DE LA CROIX (1706-1767) Nosologie methodique. Chez Hérissant le fils 1771 Vol. I: xl, 800 pp.; Vol. II: viii, 759 pp.; Vol. III: [8] 608, 108 pp. 20 cm.

Sauvages de la Croix was among the earliest of the systematists and theorists of the eighteenth century who developed detailed classifications of disease. Professor of medicine and later botany at Montpellier, he was a friend of Linnaeus (see No. 877) and an active author whose Pathologica methodica seu de cognoscendis morbis (Leiden, 1759) went through numerous editions and translations. The Éloge at the beginning of Volume I is an informative presentation of his life and achievements. Sauvages de la Croix translated the present work from the Latin edition of his Nosologia methodica (Amsterdam, 1763). He presents approximately 2,400 clinical entities arranged in a classification following that of Sydenham (see No. 549 ff.) and Linnaeus. The text concentrates primarily on clinical symptoms and morbid anatomy and is little concerned with therapy. It is a unique work that served simultaneously as a medical textbook, lexicon, and dictionary.

See Related Record(s): 877 549

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2203 (Latin ed., 1763)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.