Apparatus ad Nosologiam methodicam. Seu synopsis nosologia methodicae in usum studiosorum.
Hardcover
1775 · Amsterdam
by CULLEN, [William] Guilelmus (1712-1790).
Amsterdam: Fratrum de Tournes, 1775. Hardcover. Very Good. [viii], 284 pages, [15, index]. Signatures: *(4), A-Z(4), Aa-Oo(4), Pp(2). Woodcut printers device on title with Latin motto Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris (Do unto other as you would have done unto you) and engraved chapter tail-piece at end of Cullens preface. Contemporary mottled calf, all edges red, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering label: CULLE APPAR; (light marginal dampstaining to upper right for second half of volume, otherwise good).
William Cullen was a Professor of Chemistry and physician from Edinburgh whose nosological concepts were based on his innovative medical theory, which underscored the neurogenic aspects of disease. The Apparatus ad Nosologiam methodicam was written as a five-part response dealing with the disease taxonomies proposed by his contemporaries: François Boissier de Sauvages (1768), Carl Linnaeus (1763), Rudolph August Vogel (1764), and Johann Baptist Michael von Sagar (1771). In particular, Sagars two volume work, the Systema morborum symptomaticum secundum classes, ordines, genera et species, was printed in Vienna with Krause in 1771. In this synopsis, Cullen hoped to clarify and expand the disease classes of Sagar, even including one for erotomania (lovesickness). Cullens classes are only four: Pyrexiae, Neuroses, Cachexias, and Locales. The first two are natural classes, embracing diseases of the blood vessels and nerves; in all, Cullen is credited with bringing all affections of the nervous system under one heading by labeling them Neuroses. Cullens work on nosology appeared, in its original form, before that of Sagar, but it is often placed after it and is essentially closer to the system established by Sauvages. While this work was criticized in part for its inconsistencies, Cullen did receive praise for his simplicity of the arrangement and the formation of the genera. His few additions to his contemporaries work have been retained in the condition that he left them. (Inventory #: JC14461)
William Cullen was a Professor of Chemistry and physician from Edinburgh whose nosological concepts were based on his innovative medical theory, which underscored the neurogenic aspects of disease. The Apparatus ad Nosologiam methodicam was written as a five-part response dealing with the disease taxonomies proposed by his contemporaries: François Boissier de Sauvages (1768), Carl Linnaeus (1763), Rudolph August Vogel (1764), and Johann Baptist Michael von Sagar (1771). In particular, Sagars two volume work, the Systema morborum symptomaticum secundum classes, ordines, genera et species, was printed in Vienna with Krause in 1771. In this synopsis, Cullen hoped to clarify and expand the disease classes of Sagar, even including one for erotomania (lovesickness). Cullens classes are only four: Pyrexiae, Neuroses, Cachexias, and Locales. The first two are natural classes, embracing diseases of the blood vessels and nerves; in all, Cullen is credited with bringing all affections of the nervous system under one heading by labeling them Neuroses. Cullens work on nosology appeared, in its original form, before that of Sagar, but it is often placed after it and is essentially closer to the system established by Sauvages. While this work was criticized in part for its inconsistencies, Cullen did receive praise for his simplicity of the arrangement and the formation of the genera. His few additions to his contemporaries work have been retained in the condition that he left them. (Inventory #: JC14461)