A brief history of medical taxonomy and diagnosis
A brief history of medical taxonomy and diagnosis
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DOI:
10.1007/s10067-004-1051-z
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发表时间:
2006-03-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Dequeker, J
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作者:
Balint, GP;Buchanan, WW;Dequeker, J
Medical taxonomy or classification began in ancient Greece. Hippocrates (460-377 BC) classified disease according to symptoms and signs, by fevers, ulcers, etc., or by anatomical location, eg injuries to the head [1]. The later school of Chrysippos at Cnidos (300 BC), just north of the island of Cos on the nearby Turkish coast, categorised diseases according to the organ affected, although there is no record of postmortem examinations before performed [2]. The Cnidian school can be considered the forerunner of the biomedical model of modern medicine, while the Coan school of Hippocrates that of the holistic biopsychosocial approach [3]. Aristotle (384-322 BC) considered that the ability to divide objects into groups was a fundamental cognitive achievement and to be classified into a group, objects must share a common feature [4]. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the iatrochemists, especially Philippus, Theophrastus (after Theophrastus, 370-285 BC, the father of botany), Aureolus, Bombastus (from which is derived the English noun bombast), von Hohenheim, better known by his sobriquet, Paracelsus (1493-1541)(perhaps meaning above Celsus), and described by Sir