Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 877

CARL VON LINNE (1707-1778) Glömska af alla substantiva och i synnerhet namn. (In Kongl. Swenska wetenskaps academiens hanglingar. Vol. 6 (1745), April-Juni, pp. 116-117.) 19.4 cm.

Linné (or Linnaeus) was both a physician and a botanist and is perhaps better known for his work in the natural sciences than for his contributions in the practice and teaching of medicine. His Systema naturae (1735) remains as the basis of modern botanical classification and nomenclature. He excelled in his descriptions and was the first to introduce the binomial nomenclature and to classify man in the primate order as homo sapiens. This brief paper is a case history of a patient with aphasia and is one of the few purely medical publications of Linnaeus. It is the first description of aphasia.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4616

Gift of John Martin, M.D.