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From Pathognomicha and Passiologia to Pathologia: concise history of a neologism (1486-1598)
1Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
The etymology of the term pathology refers to one to the various ancient (Hippocratic, Galenic and Pseudo-Galenic) suggestions for subdividing the medical arts (medicinae artis partes), suggestions that came into print during the late fifteenth century. Multiple variants of the term initially served to denote "pathology". Jacques Dubois's reading list for medical students, first published circa 1535, ultimately popularized neo-Latin pathologia; it entered the English language, via the French, in 1597.
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