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François Boissier de Sauvages

French scientist

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contribution to nosology

  • In internal medicine

    …which was built upon by François Boissier de Sauvages, who in 1763 published the first methodical nosology, or description of disease symptoms. Sauvages emphasized symptomatology as the basis for disease classification, since there was no information then available about the causes of diseases.

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