It was the era when the scientific method was being built and when rationalism decided to fight against superstition. But we only understand well what we call and order. In the middle of the Enlightenment, a young graduate of the medical faculty of Montpellier undertook the great task of classifying diseases as botanists had just done for plants. This classification, begun in 1731 and refined throughout his life, made physician and botanist François Boissier de Savage the father of nosology, the science behind the classification of diseases.
The ancient doctors then remained masters of medical faculties, of doubtful efficacy; “There is not a physician who has learned the principles taught in the schools, who, when it comes to practice, does not encounter difficulties almost every day.”, regrets François Boissier de Sauvage, whose pen knows how to ridicule the pedagogy of some of his colleagues. Face…
Source: Le Figaro
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