1763 first edition books by François Boissier de Sauvages were written by a prominent French physician and botanist who pioneered nosology—the systematic classification of medical diseases. Influenced by British physician Thomas Sydenham and botanist Carl Linnaeus, Sauvages argued that medical conditions should be scientifically categorized into classes, genera, and species, exactly like plants. This specific volume contains some of his most influential work regarding early psychiatric taxonomy (Vesanias).
