William Cullen
See also: William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen , born the April 15th 1710 and deceased the February 5th 1790, is a British doctor .
He professed with the greatest distinction medicine and chemistry with Glasgow, then with Edinburgh; the medical doctrines of Hermann Boerhaave attacked, which reigned then, and substituted for it new doctrines in which it allotted the principal role to the nervous system, that its predecessor had neglected too much.
It rendered also great services to physiology and especially to the nosology, into which it introduced a methodical classification.
Cullen was the first to give a definition of the neurosis by describing it like a deterioration of the nervous system and either like the attack of a body of the body.
Works
Its principal works are:- Physiology , 1785;
- Practice off physic , 1787;
- Synopsis nosologias methodicse , 1772;
- has treatise off the Materia medica , 1789, which all were translated by Edouard-François-Marie Bosquillon.
- Medical Matter with a chapter on the Quinquina which influenced in particular the discovery of the principle of similarity by Hahnemann, principle which led this last to the Homéopathie.
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