Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Nosology

  • “Uncertain disease”: the science of nostalgia

    Kevis Goodman Berkeley, California, USA   Nosology, 1800 William Cullen William Cullen, the well-esteemed Edinburgh physician and professor of medicine at Glasgow and later Edinburgh, shared the “love of system” praised by no less than Adam Smith, who—not coincidentally—happened to be Cullen’s patient and friend.1 Cullen set out to gather all existing medical nosologies (the…