Annals of medical history . ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY Volume IV Spring 1922 Number i NOSOGRAPHY IN MODERN INTERNAL MEDICINE By KNUD FABER, M. D. Professor of Internal MedicineUniversity of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Sydenham and the Nosologists. HEN interest in pro-moting medicalscience by independ-ent research hadbeen revived withthe Renaissance,anatomical investi-gations were madethe chief starting point in the quest forwider knowledge. In the beginning of thefourteenth century the practice of humandissections was begun at the Italian uni-versities of Padua and Bologna, and withthe stea
Annals of medical history . ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY Volume IV Spring 1922 Number i NOSOGRAPHY IN MODERN INTERNAL MEDICINE By KNUD FABER, M. D. Professor of Internal MedicineUniversity of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Sydenham and the Nosologists. HEN interest in pro-moting medicalscience by independ-ent research hadbeen revived withthe Renaissance,anatomical investi-gations were madethe chief starting point in the quest forwider knowledge. In the beginning of thefourteenth century the practice of humandissections was begun at the Italian uni-versities of Padua and Bologna, and withthe steadily increasing number of dissec-tions, a knowledge of anatomy was grad-ually gained, which reached its chmax inthe crowning achievements of physiology had its beginning inHarveys discovery of the circulation ofthe blood and in Malpighis demonstrationof the capillary system. Through the workof these three great men the foundationsof human anatomy and physiology werelaid. In pathology it proved a far moredifficult and laborious task to provide abasis for a scientific structure. In the early studies of normal anatomy-some interest was exhibited in the patho-logical changes occurring in the viscera;Vesahus himself is even supposed
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